Dryland Management
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation. Following their s...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013
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| Series: | Environmental and Resource Economics Set
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I Land Improvement Techniques; 1. Economic Evaluation of Land Levelling in Weibei Dry Upland, Shaanxi, China; 2. Soil Erosion and Land Degradation in the Northern Thai Uplands; 3. Aerial Seeding in China; II Farm Practices; 4. Dryland Management: the Machakos District, Kenya; 5. An Economic Evaluation of Soil Conservation in Kitui District, Kenya; 6. Economic Evaluation of Dryland Peanut Growing With Perforated Plastic Mulch
- 13. Dryland Management Options in Wastelands Development:Jawaja Block, RajasthanV Environmental Management at the Regional Level; 14. Economics of Dryland Salinity Control in the Murray River Basin, Northern Victoria (Australia); 15. Regional Land Use Planning: The Murray River Catchment of Western Australia; VI Damage Cost Studies; 16. Damage Costs of Land Degradation: an Australian Perspective; 17. The Costs of Soil Degradation on the Northwest Slopes of New South Wales, Australia; 18. Land Degradation Costs in Canada: a Recent Assessment; VII Macro/Global Studies
- 19. Natural Resource Accounting: A Case Study of Botswana20. Global Modelling of Dryland Degradation; Subject Index
- 7. Dryland Management in the Korfan and Darfur Provinces of Sudan8. Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Farm Improvement With Soil Conservation (FISC) Project; III Rangeland Management; 9. The Fitzroy Valley Regeneration Project in Western Australia; 10. A Framework for Economic Evaluation of Collective Fencing in Botswana; 11. Risks in the Botswana Range-Cattle System; IV Improvement Programmmes at the Village/Local Level; 12. Economic and Social Change in a Small Rural Community in the Degraded Lower Shivalik Hill Range in North India