Wheater, H. et al. ed.
Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas
Cambridge University Press 2007.12
206 pp.(H)
ISBN 0-521-86918-8
16,700円
Contents
1.Modelling hydrological processes in arid and semi-arid areas: an introduction page/ 2.Global precipitation estimation from satellite imagery using artificial neural networks/ 3.Modelling semi-arid and arid hydrology and water resources: The southern Africa experience/ 4.Use of the IHACRES rainfall-runoff model in arid and semi-arid regions/ 5.KINEROS2 and the AGWA modelling Framework/ 6.Ephemeral flow and sediment delivery modelling in the Indian arid zone/ 7.The modular modelling system (MMS): a toolbox for water and environmental resources management/ 8.Calibration, uncertainty, and regional analysis of conceptual rainfall-runoff models/ 9.Real-time flow forecasting/ 10.Real-time flood forecasting: Indian experience/ 11.Groundwater modelling in hard-rock terrain in semi-arid areas: experience from India/ Appendix Access to software and data products/ Index/ *
Bainbridge, D. A.
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration
New Hope for Arid Lands
Island Press 2007.
416 pp. (P)
ISBN 1-55963-969-5
7,400円
Contents
A User's Guide / Preface / Acknowledgements / 1: Desertification: crisis and opportunity / 2: Understanding the ecology of arid lands / 3: The economics and psychology of desertification / 4: Why the desert can't heal itself - understanding disturbance / 5: Restoration approaches and planning / 6: Restoration equipment and supplies / 7: Project management / 8: Soil salvage and restoration / 9: Seed collection, storage and management / 10: Container production and planting / 11: Direct seeding / 12: Water management and irrigation / 13: Riparian restoration / 14: Restoration in use / 15: Restoration monitoring / 16: The challenge ahead / Appendix / Glossary / References / About the Author / Index / *
* The book discusses the ecology of desert plants, explores the causes of desertification and land abuse, and outlines the processes and procedures needed to evaluate, plan, implement, and monitor desert restoration projects. Each chapter represents a guide to a critical topic for environmental restoration; extensive photographs, diagrams, and drawings give detailed information for immediate application, and additional resources are included in appendixes. *
Faye, B. & Esenov, P. ed.
Desertification Combat and Food Safety
The Added Value of Camel Producers
(NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioural Sciences Vol. 362 )
IOS Press 2005.
250 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-58603-473-1
18,000円
Contents
* This publication brings together desert and camel scientists from Western European countries, Mediterranean countries and Central Asian Republics. Scientists from Central Asia are confronted with the demanding challenge of desertification and maintenance of animal productivity in order to satisfy human requirements both in quantity and quality. The problem is complex and solutions need a multidisciplinary investment. The knowledge of the desertification process and the place of animal production in desert ecosystem is increasing in many countries. New approaches and methodologies have been implemented for a better observation and understanding of the situation.
* Desertification Combat and Food Safety contributes to the exchange between scientists in order to allow access to those new approaches and methodologies by all desert and camel scientists in the involved countries. Most contributors are well-known in the camel sciences community. All of them have significantly contributed to a better understanding of camel biology, camel productivity or of the camel as an element of the desert ecosystem. The confrontation of the research achieved in those countries with the scientific activities achieved in Central Asia is quite important. It contributes to the improvement of the methods used in those countries and at the very least helps the scientists from Central Asia to access more recent publications and to reach the international standard for publications. *
Hutchinson, C. F. & Herrmann, S. M.
The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited
A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research
（乾燥地域の未来）
Springer-Verlag 2007.11
228 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4020-6688-0
21,000円
Contents
1. Introduction: the future is now/ 2. Contexts/ 3.: The search for water/ 4. Weather modification more than bargained for?/ 5. Plant and animal alternatives/ 6. Ecosystems/ 7. Land Use and Management/ 8. Policy in and for drylands/ 9. The Future of Arid Lands revisited/ References/ Index/
* The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, sponsored by UNESCO and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. The Future of Arid Lands Revisited, commissioned by UNESCO in 2005, reexamines this earlier work. Written by researchers from the University of Arizona, this volume first looks at the state of science in 1956 and attendant contemporary views of arid lands development. It then considers how scientific understanding of the processes governing arid lands has since evolved, before extracting lessons from these comparisons that might guide current and future arid land managers and speculating on what the future might hold for arid lands. *
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