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Drought follows the plow : cultivating marginal areas

Title
Drought follows the plow : cultivating marginal areas / edited by Michael H. Glantz.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Glantz, Michael H.
Description
xviii, 197 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Droughts
  • Climatic changes
  • Agriculturally marginal lands
  • Meteorology, Agricultural
  • Agriculture > Environmental aspects
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Climate Change
  • drought
  • climate change
  • Dürre
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Klimaänderung
  • Agrarmeteorologie
  • Ödland
  • Kultivierung
  • Landwirtschaft
  • Desertifikation
  • Bodenerosion
  • Urbarmachung
  • Agriculture des régions arides
  • Nature > Effets de l'homme
  • Sécheresse
  • Désertification
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Agrarmeteorologie
  • Kultivierung
  • Landwirtschaft
  • Desertifikation
  • Bodenerosion
  • Urbarmachung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Drought, desertification and food production / Michael H. Glantz -- Drought -- Desertification -- Food production: the role of marginal lands -- Cultivating the dry margins -- pt. 2. Case studies and conclusions -- The West African Sahel / Michael H. Glantz -- Somalia / Jörg Janzen -- The Brazilian Nordeste (Northeast) / Antonio Magalhães and Pennie Magee -- The dry regions of Kenya / David Campbell -- Australia / R. Les Heathcote -- Ethiopia / James McCann -- Northwest Africa / Will Swearingen -- The Virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union / Igor Zonn, Michael H. Glantz and Alvin Rubinstein -- South Africa / Coleen Vogel -- Is the stork outrunning the plow? / Michael H. Glantz.
ISBN
  • 0521442524
  • 9780521442527
  • 0521477212
  • 9780521477215
LCCN
94004148
OCLC
  • ocm30078500
  • 30078500
  • SCSB-2031037
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library