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-

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past a

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This book is about the ‘how’ of desertification control as opposed to an analysis of the ‘why’ and fills a gap in the desertification-related literature