TY  - GEN
AU  - Ahearn,Ariell
AU  - Sternberg,Troy
TI  - Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies
SN  - books978-3-03921-348-1
PY  - 2019///
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - regeneration
KW  - drylands
KW  - invasive vine
KW  - riparian ecosystems
KW  - Kazakhstan
KW  - Mongolian grassland
KW  - human health
KW  - charisma
KW  - water rights
KW  - political ecology
KW  - the Hovmoller diagram
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - common-pool resource
KW  - desertification
KW  - afforestation
KW  - continuous grazing
KW  - arid area
KW  - tamarind age
KW  - land use change
KW  - mountains of Central Asia
KW  - soil carbon storage
KW  - social movements
KW  - case study of nomadic and settlement grazing system
KW  - Afar
KW  - protest
KW  - social–ecological systems
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Asian dust
KW  - subarctic agriculture
KW  - Jordan River Basin
KW  - conservation
KW  - protected areas
KW  - water productivity
KW  - national parks
KW  - disturbance
KW  - dryland
KW  - increase of growing season
KW  - Sanjiangyuan region
KW  - policy implementation
KW  - partnerships
KW  - snow index
KW  - global carbon balance
KW  - dust storm emission
KW  - Jordan
KW  - One Belt
KW  - local farming
KW  - decoupling
KW  - water security
KW  - environmental impacts
KW  - groundwater
KW  - Kashgar Region
KW  - Gobi
KW  - Palestine
KW  - degrading
KW  - property rights
KW  - One Road
KW  - aerodynamic roughness
KW  - Israel
KW  - desert
KW  - fodder demand
KW  - spatial migration model
KW  - vegetation survey
KW  - agricultural water intensity
KW  - dry lake beds
KW  - LUCC
KW  - communal rangelands
KW  - subversive clientelism
KW  - Tibetan Plateau
KW  - ecotone
KW  - river basin development
KW  - livestock
KW  - environmental justice
KW  - computational fluid dynamics
KW  - Japan
KW  - remote sensing
KW  - climate hazard
KW  - mining
KW  - Chobe
KW  - modelling
KW  - sustainable livelihoods
KW  - water
KW  - pastoralism
KW  - environmental regime shift
KW  - erosion
KW  - institutional change
KW  - Gobi desert of Mongolia
KW  - Cuchillas de la Zarca
KW  - non-linear change
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - cross correlation analysis
KW  - farming at its limits
KW  - absence
KW  - New Silk Road
KW  - drag partition
KW  - cellular automata
KW  - agriculture
KW  - China
KW  - SPOT VGT
KW  - grass height
KW  - co-management
KW  - Belt and Road Initiative
KW  - wind erosion modelling
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - KAZA
KW  - dust storm outbreak
KW  - coverage
KW  - desert reclamation
KW  - nomadic pastoralism
KW  - fodder supply
KW  - soil quality index
KW  - vegetation response to precipitation
KW  - driving forces
KW  - grassland degradation
KW  - environment
KW  - Nyangatom
KW  - rotational grazing
KW  - drought
KW  - Asia
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - Southern Africa
KW  - Gobi Desert region
KW  - Sonoran desert
KW  - South Omo
KW  - arid region
KW  - land cover/land use
KW  - drip irrigation
KW  - risk
KW  - air temperature increase
KW  - the Shiyang River Basin
KW  - forest resources
KW  - landscape
KW  - ecosystem services
KW  - Greenland
KW  - economic valuation
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Understanding deserts and drylands is essential, as arid landscapes cover >40% of the Earth and are home to two billion people. Today's problematic environment–human interaction needs contemporary knowledge to address dryland complexity. Physical dimensions in arid zones—land systems, climate and hazards, ecology—are linked with social processes that directly impact drylands, such as land management, livelihoods, and development. The challenges require integrated research that identifies systemic drivers across global arid regions. Measurement and monitoring, field investigation, remote sensing, and data analysis are effective tools to investigate natural dynamics. Equally, inquiry into how policy and practice affect landscape sustainability is key to mitigating detrimental activity in deserts. Relations between socio-economic forces and degradation, agro-pastoral rangeland use, drought and disaster and resource extraction reflect land interactions. Contemporary themes of food security, conflict, and conservation are interlinked in arid environments. This book unifies desert science, arid environments, and dryland development. The chapters identify land dynamics, address system risks and delineate human functions through original research in arid zones. Mixed methodologies highlight the vital links between social and environmental science in global deserts. The book engages with today's topical themes and presents novel analyses of arid land systems and societies
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1493
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41259
ER  -