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Géographie des régions arides.
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ISBN: 2130374573 9782130374572 Year: 1982 Volume: 30 Publisher: Paris PUF

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The arid lands : their use and abuse
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ISBN: 0582300487 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Longman

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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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Die bodennahen Winde in den Hochlagen der Indian peaks section (Colorado front range)
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ISBN: 350673203X Year: 1978 Publisher: Paderborn Schöningh

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Untersuchungen zur Humidität und Aridität von Afrika : das Konzept einer potentiellen Landschaftsverdunstung
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ISBN: 3427761614 Year: 1981 Publisher: Bonn Dümmler


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Arid and semi-arid geomorphology
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ISBN: 9781107005549 9780511794261 1139890360 1107056470 1107054346 1107057574 0511794266 1107058813 1107055377 9781107055377 9781107057579 110700554X 9781107058811 1107064872 9781107064874 9781139890366 9781107056473 9781107054349 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly international perspective, with examples from all over the world. Extensively referenced and illustrated, it covers such topics as the importance of past climatic changes, the variability of different desert environments, rock breakdown, wind erosion and dust storm generation, sand dunes, fluvial and slope forms and processes, the role of the applied geomorphologist in desert development and conservation, and the Earth as an analogue for other planetary bodies. This book is destined to become the classic volume on arid and semi-arid geomorphology for advanced students and researchers in physical geography, geomorphology, Earth science, sedimentology, environmental science and archaeology.


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Journal of arid environments.
ISSN: 1095922X 01401963 Year: 1978 Publisher: London : Academic 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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Flood hazard identification and mitigation in semi- and arid environments
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ISBN: 9814355100 9789814355100 9789814355094 9814355097 Year: 2012 Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific,

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Alluvial fans are ubiquitous geomorphological features that occur throughout the world, regardless of climate, at the front of mountains as the result of erosion and deposition. They are more prominent in semi- and arid climates simply because of the lack of vegetative cover that masks their fan shapes in more humid areas. From both engineering and geological viewpoints, alluvial fans present particular fluvial and sedimentation hazards in semi- and arid regions because episodic rainfall-runoff events can result in debris, mud, and fluvial flows through complex and, in some cases, migratory ch

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