Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems

Preface

1. Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach

2. The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art

3. Resilience, Self-organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation

4. Short-range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems

5. Long-range Ecogeomorphic Processes

6. Integrating Short- and Long-range Processes into Models: the Emergence of Pattern

7. Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems

8. Characterizing Patterns

9. Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems

10. Uncertainty assessment

11. Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes

12. Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence

13.  Case Study of Self-organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa

14.  Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe

15. Land Degradation in Drylands: Reёvaluating Pattern-process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology

Index

Multidisciplinary approach, bringing together expertise from a range of backgrounds

Addresses a problem faced by 2 billion people worldwide

At the forefront of understanding the science of land degradation in drylands

The first book on ecogeomorphology of drylands