Conserving Land, Protecting Water
Published on 21. July 2008
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-84593-387-6 (ISBN)
Description
The degradation of land and water resources resulting primarily from agricultural activities has had enormous impact on human society. In order to alleviate this problem an advanced understanding of the state of our resources and the process of degradation is needed. Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-387-6 (9781845933876)
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Persons
Editor
International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
International Water Management Institute, Ethiopia
Contributions
International Board for Soil Research and Management, Thailand
Stockholm University, Sweden
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
International Water Management Institute, Ghana
University of Berne, Switzerland
International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Content
Part 1: Land and Water Degradation: Assessment and Issues 1.1: Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources. 1.2: Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes. 1.3: Land Degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder farmers in Makanya catachment, Tanzania. 1.4: Political ecologies of bright spots 1.5: Large scale fluxes of crop nutrients in food cause environmental problems at the sources and at sinks 1.6: Carbon sequestration, land degradation and water Part 2: Towards Better Land and Water Management 2.1: Local Innovation in 'Green Water' Management 2.2: Sustainability and Resilience of the Urban Agricultural Phenomenon in Africa 2.3: Safeguarding water resources by making the land greener: knowledge management through WOCAT 2.4: Bright basins - do many bright spots make a basin shine? 2.5: The influence of plant cover structures on water fluxes in agricultural landscapes 2.6: Investments in collective capacity and social capital Part 3: ' Bright Spots' 3.1: 'Bright spots': Pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity 3.2: Ecosystem benefits of 'Bright Spots'