Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia (eBook, ePUB)

An Integrated and Regional Perspective
Redaktion: Squires, Victor; Qi, Lu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book an interdisciplinary team of experts provide a comprehensive analysis of sustainable land management in Central Asia, sharing problems and solutions. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317394044
• Artikelnr.: 49272278

Autorenporträt

Victor R. Squires is a Guest Professor in the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Lu Qi is Director and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Desertification Studies, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction
1. Greater Central Asia: its peoples and their history and geography
2. Biogeography and natural resources of Greater Central Asia: an overview
3. Managing the commons in the post-Soviet transition: what are the
challenges of institutional change in pastoral systems in Uzbekistan?
Part II: Sustainable land management: a dream or an economic and ecological
imperative
4. Sustainable land management: a pathway to sustainable development
5. The future we want: putting aspirations for a land degradation neutral
world into practice in the GCA region
6. Barriers to sustainable land management in Greater Central Asia: with
special reference to the five former Soviet republics
Part III: The nature and extent of land degradation in Greater Central Asia
7. Assessment of land degradation processes and identification of long-term
trends in vegetation dynamics in the drylands of Greater Central Asia
8. Land degradation indicators: development and implementation by remote
sensing techniques
9. Mitigation of desertification and land degradation impacts and
multilateral cooperation in Greater Central Asia
Part IV: Thematic issues of SLM in Great Central Asia
10. Water in Central Asia: a cross-cutting management issue
11. Water from the mountains of Greater Central Asia: a resource under
threat
Part V: Consolidating and summarizing findings: the way forward
12. Greater Central Asia as the new frontier in the twenty-first century
13. Greater Central Asia: China, Russia or multilateralism?
14. Unifying perspectives on land, water, people, national development and
an agenda for future social-ecological research