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Land Degradation
Johnson, Douglas L.; Lewis, Laurence A.
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Description for Land Degradation
Hardback. Explores the substantial decrease in an area's biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. This book covers the history of land degradation, looks at local and regional effects of human interactions with the environment, and compares creative destruction with destructive creation. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 194 x 25. Weight in Grams: 821.
This up-to-date, second edition of Land Degradation explores substantial decreases in the land's biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. Case studies_including tourist impacts in Europe, the environmental footprints of urban areas, wetland drainage for agriculture in the American Midwest, run-on farming in the Negev, land degradation in the Amazon Basin, and irrigation in Egypt_cover the history of land degradation, identify the level of human responsibility in transforming natural landscapes into sustainable agro-ecosystems, look at local and regional effects of human interactions with the environment, and reveal both negative and positive aspects of land modification. Extensively illustrated, ... Read more
This up-to-date, second edition of Land Degradation explores substantial decreases in the land's biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. Case studies_including tourist impacts in Europe, the environmental footprints of urban areas, wetland drainage for agriculture in the American Midwest, run-on farming in the Negev, land degradation in the Amazon Basin, and irrigation in Egypt_cover the history of land degradation, identify the level of human responsibility in transforming natural landscapes into sustainable agro-ecosystems, look at local and regional effects of human interactions with the environment, and reveal both negative and positive aspects of land modification. Extensively illustrated, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742519473
SKU
V9780742519473
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About Johnson, Douglas L.; Lewis, Laurence A.
Douglas L. Johnson is professor of geography at Clark University. Laurence A. Lewis is professor of geography at Clark University.
Reviews for Land Degradation
This volume...provides a readable and wide-ranging examination of land degradation....Full of brief but well-chosen examples. The authors...have written a text that is highly accessible to an interdisciplinary audience, explaining technical terms clearly and concisely.
Human Ecology, October 2008
Reflecting the combined expertise of the authors, the enhanced second edition of Land Degradation considers the impact of biophysical and ... Read more
Human Ecology, October 2008
Reflecting the combined expertise of the authors, the enhanced second edition of Land Degradation considers the impact of biophysical and ... Read more