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| Author | : Martin Williams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 653 |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1107016916 |
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
| Author | : Dan Rabinowitz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9781503614864 |
Hotter and dryer than most parts of the world, the Middle East could soon see climate change exacerbate food and water shortages, aggravate social inequalities, and drive displacement and political destabilization. And as renewable energy eclipses fossil fuels, oil rich countries in the Middle East will see their wealth diminish. Amidst these imminent risks is a call to action for regional leaders. Could countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates harness the region's immense potential for solar energy and emerge as vanguards of global climate action? The Power of Deserts surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. Offering more than warning and fear, however, the book highlights a potentially brighter future--a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy. With his deep knowledge of the region and knack for presenting scientific data with clarity, Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet surprisingly optimistic investigation of opportunity arising from a looming crisis.
| Author | : Walter G. Whitford |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2019-08-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0081026552 |
Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second edition of Ecology of Desert Systems provides a clear, extensive guide to the complex interactions involved in these areas. This book details the relationships between abiotic and biotic environments of desert ecosystems, demonstrating to readers how these interactions drive ecological processes. These include plant growth and animal reproductive success, the spatial and temporal distribution of vegetation and animals, and the influence of invasive species and anthropogenic climate change specific to arid systems. Drawing on the extensive experience of its expert authors, Ecology of Desert Systems is an essential guide to arid ecosystems for students looking for an overview of the field, researchers keen to learn how their work fits in to the overall picture, and those involved with environmental management of desert areas. - Highlights the complexity of global desert systems in a clear, concise way - Reviews the most current issues facing researchers in the field, including the spread of invasive species due to globalized trade, the impact of industrial mining, and climate change - Updated and extended to include information on invasive species management, industrial mining impacts, and the current and future role of climate change in desert systems
| Author | : A.S. Alsharhan |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 636 |
| Release | : 2020-08-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1000099873 |
These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.
| Author | : Martin Williams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 653 |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 131606073X |
Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia, and the causes of historic floods and droughts. The book then considers the causes and consequences of desertification and proposes four key conditions for achieving ecologically sustainable use of natural resources in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts: geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers.
| Author | : Ben Ehrenreich |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2020-07-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1640093540 |
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
| Author | : Thomas T. Warner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 623 |
| Release | : 2009-01-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 113944963X |
Aridity prevails over more than one third of the land area of the Earth and over a significant fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook dealing with the weather processes that define the character of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather.
| Author | : Exequiel Ezcurra |
| Publisher | : UNEP/Earthprint |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9280727222 |
Namibia Business Intelligence Report - Practical Information, Opportunities, Contacts
| Author | : Timothy M. Kusky |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2010-06-23 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1438118457 |
Part of an eight-volume set for students, this book examines the past, present, and future of Earth's climate.
| Author | : Julie J Laity |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2009-01-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1444300741 |
Taking a global perspective, this book provides a concise overviewof drylands, including their physical, biological, temporal, andhuman components. Examines the physical systems occurring in desert environments,including climate, hydrology, past and present lakes, weathering,hillslopes, geomorphic surfaces, water as a geomorphic agent, andaeolian processes Offers an accessible introduction to the physical, biological,temporal, and human components of drylands Investigates the nature, environmental requirements, andessential geomorphic roles of plants and animals in this stressfulbiological environment Highlights the impact of human population growth on climate,desertification, water resources, and dust storm activity Includes an examination of surface/atmosphere interactions andthe impact of ENSO events.
