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Drylands facing change : interventions, investments and identities
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ISBN: 1000802531 1003174485 1032005084 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited),

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"This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and Inner Asia. Changes is drylands is happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as 'wastelands' and their 'backward' inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security and conservation informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland's point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development and drylands in general"-- Provided by publisher.


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Arid zone geomorphology
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ISBN: 1852930209 0470213418 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Belhaven press


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Arid land irrigation in developing countries : environmental problems and effects, based on the international symposium, 16-21 February 1976, Alexandria, Egypt.
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ISBN: 0080215882 1322252718 148315971X Year: 1977 Publisher: Oxford Pergamon


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Coping with semiaridity : how the rural poor survive in dry-season environments
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ISBN: 9068091549 Year: 1992 Publisher: Amsterdam Royal Dutch geographical society


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The arid lands : history, power, knowledge
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ISBN: 0262333538 9780262333535 9780262333542 0262333546 9780262034524 0262034522 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.

L'homme et la sécheresse
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ISBN: 2225847622 Year: 1995 Volume: *6 Publisher: Paris : Masson,

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