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1 online resource |
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NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, environmental security |
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NATO science for peace and security series. Series C, Environmental security.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. link between desertification and security in Central Asia / Ilka Lindt -- 2. From global environmental discourse to local adaptations and responses : a desertification research agenda for Central Asia / Lindsay C. Stringer -- 3. Causes and socio-economic consequences of desertification in Central Asia / Lapas Alibekov / Davlat Alibekov -- 4. Forage distributions, range condition, and the importance of pastoral movement in Central Asia -- a remote sensing study / John Lomas / Roy Behnke / Michael Coughenour / Kevin Price -- 5. impact of livestock grazing on soils and vegetation around settlements in southeast Kazakhstan / Ilya I. Alimaev / Carol Kerven / Aibyn Torekhanov / Roy Behnke / Kazbek Smailov / Vladimir Yurchenko / Zheksinbai Sisatov / Kanat Shanbaev -- 6. Livestock mobility and degradation in Kazakhstan's semi-arid rangelands / Aidos Smailov / Kanat Smailov / Ilya I. Alimaev / Kanat Shanbaev / Carol Kerven -- 7. Human and natural factors that influence livestock distributions and rangeland desertification in Turkmenistan / Michael Coughenour / Roy Behnke / Grant Davidson / Abdul Jabbar -- 8. Land reform in Tajikistan : consequences for tenure security, agricultural productivity and land management practices / Sarah Robinson / Ian Higginbotham / Tanya Guenther / Andree Germain -- 9. Israeli experience in prevention of processes of desertification / N. Orlovsky -- 10. Potential effects of global warming on atmospheric lead contamination in the mountains / Marian Janiga |
| Summary |
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on 'The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia' held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006. The meeting provided a forum for twenty-six scientists from Central Asia and NATO countries to discuss the human dimensions of the desertifi- tion process. Papers presented to the meeting examined recent scientific evidence on the impact of desertification on livestock production, public health, and biodiversity, and contributed to the formulation of coh- ent national and regional policies for the management of watersheds, rangelands, and irrigated agriculture. The meeting was co-directed by Roy Behnke of the Macaulay Institute, UK, and by Lapas Alibekov of the Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan. Both the workshop and this subsequent publication have been financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and we gratefully acknowledge this support. The Bishkek meeting was ably hosted by the Kyrgyz Sheep Breeders Association under the dir- tion of Akylbek Rakaev who contributed substantially to the successful running of the workshop. Deliberations at the workshop emphasized that policy failures at national level had promoted desertification within the region |
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Central Asia |
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Selected conference papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Desertification -- Asia, Central -- Congresses
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Desertification -- Social aspects -- Asia, Central -- Congresses
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Desertification -- Control -- Government policy -- Asia, Central -- Congresses
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Environmental management -- Asia, Central -- Congresses
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Desertification
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Desertification -- Social aspects
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Environmental management
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Central Asia
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Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Behnke, Roy H., 1947-
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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| ISBN |
9781402085444 |
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1402085443 |
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9781402085420 |
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1402085427 |
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1402085435 |
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9781402085437 |
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9786611860721 |
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661186072X |
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