The Causes and Progression of Desertification The Causes and Progression of Desertification
Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice

The Causes and Progression of Desertification

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Descripción editorial

This book provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub national case studies. It uses a meta-analytical model to determine whether proximate causes and underlying driving forces fall into any patterns, to identify mediating factors, feedbacks, cross-scalar dynamics and typical pathways. It shows a limited set of recurrent core variables in varying combinations to drive desertification. Most prominent root causes are climatic factors, institutions, national policies, population growth and remote economic influences that lead to local cropland expansion, overgrazing and infrastructure extension, associated with desertification as a potential but not necessary outcome. Some factors are geographically robust; most of them are region and time specific.

GÉNERO
Ciencia y naturaleza
PUBLICADO
2017
8 de septiembre
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
272
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Taylor & Francis
VENDEDOR
Taylor & Francis Group
TAMAÑO
7.2
MB

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