Land degradation in Mediterranean environments of the world : nature and extent, causes and solutions

Title
  1. Land degradation in Mediterranean environments of the world : nature and extent, causes and solutions / compiled and edited by Arthur J. Conacher and Maria Sala.
Published by
  1. Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1998.

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Additional authors
  1. Conacher, A. J.
  2. Sala, Maria (María Sala i Sanjaume)
Description
  1. xxviii, 491 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  1. This volume provides an assessment of the land degradation in the Mediterranean regions. It examines the nature of the world's Mediterranean-type climatic environment and explores the problem of land degradation.
Subject
  1. Environmental degradation
  2. Land degradation
  3. Ecology
  4. Degradation
  5. Etesienklima
  6. Aufsatzsammlung
  7. Degradação ambiental > Mediterrâneo
  8. Degradação do solo > Mediterrâneo
  9. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
  10. DEGRADATION
  11. LAND
  12. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
  13. Sols > Dégradation > Méditerranée (région)
  14. Écologie des régions de climat méditerranéen
  15. Sols > Érosion > Régions de climat méditerranéen
  16. Sols > Dégradation > Régions de climat méditerranéen
  17. Sols > Conservation > Régions de climat méditerranéen
  18. Pollution > Régions de climat méditerranéen
  19. Terres > Détérioration > Régions de climat méditerranéen
  20. Mediterranean Region > Environmental conditions
  21. Mediterranean Region
  22. MEDITERRANEAN SEA
  23. Méditerranée (région) > Aspect de l'environnement
Contents
  1. Introduction / Arthur Conacher and Jeanette Conacher -- pt. 1. The Nature of the World's Mediterranean-Type Environments. 1. Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands / Maria Sala and Celeste Coelho. 2. The South of France and Corsica / Jean-Louis Ballais. 3. Italy / Marino Sorriso-Valvo. 4. The Croatian Adriatic Coast / Jela Bilandzija, Matija Frankovic and Drazen Kaucic. 5. Greece / C.S. Kosmas, N.G. Danalatos and A. Mizara. 6. The Eastern Mediterranean / Moshe Inbar. 7. North Africa / Abdellah Laouina. 8. Greater California / Antony Orme and Amalie Jo Orme. 9. Chile / Consuelo Castro and Mauricio Calderon. 10. The Southwestern Cape of South Africa / Michael E. Meadows.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-482) and index.