Arid Lands

A Geographical Appriasal
Herausgeber: Hills, E. S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a general conspectus of arid zone geography

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032730707
• ISBN-10: 1032730706
• Artikelnr.: 70103843

Autorenporträt

E. S. Hills was Lecturer in Geology 1932-1944, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1944-1962, Research Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1962-1971, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His interests were wide ranging and included fossil fishes, physiography, mineralogy and petrology, structure, tectonics and morphotectonics, and economic geology. He died in 1986

Inhaltsangabe

1. Arid Lands and Human Problems E. S. Hills 2. The World's Arid Areas
Gilbert F. White 3. Arid Zone Meteorology C. C. Wallén 4. Geomorphology E.
S. Hills, C. D. Ollier, C. R. Twidale 5. Water Supply, Use and Management
F. Dixey 6. Soils of Arid Lands T. N. Jewitt 7. Deserts in the Past K. W.
Butzer, C. R. Twidale 8. Plant Life in Deserts M. Kassas 9. Animals of the
Desert E. B. Edney 10. Man in Arid Lands: 1 Endemic Ciultures D. H. K.
Amiran 11. Man in Arid Lands: 2 Patterns of Occupance D. H. K. Amiran 12.
Irrigation in Arid Lands Herbert Greene 13. Small-Scale Industry and Crafts
in Arid Regions X. De Planhol 14. Industrialisation E. S. Hills 15. The Use
of Arid and Semi-Arid Land R O. Whyte 16. The Improvement of Animals
Through Introductions and Breeding G. R. Moule 17. The Individual in the
Desert Douglas H. K. Lee 18. Social Life in the Arid Zones Lawrence Krader
19. Deserts as Producing Regions Today Gilbert F. White 20. Research and
the Future of Arid Lands E. S. Hills.