Desertification (Contemporary Issues in Geography) - Softcover

Middleton, Nick

9780199133697: Desertification (Contemporary Issues in Geography)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199133697 ISBN 13: 9780199133697

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

The topic of desertification demands the application of all the skills that the geographer is concerned with. It is an issue that is studied at a variety of spatial scales from global through to village level.

DT Takes students through a wide range of types of evidence and methods of study involved in looking at desertification

DT Highlights some question marks which have made the subject an issue and questions some of the assumptions behind the issue

DT Highlights the problems of working on such a broad-scale physical and social subject

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This controversial book argues that the reality of the expanding desert is not so much an objective scientific fact as a political, social and observational construct. Examines the origin of the desertification myth, how it spawned multimillion dollar research initiatives and became a leading environmental issue. Uses new research findings to demonstrate that this highly vaunted problem is extremely smaller and less locally significant than previously accepted. Includes a wealth of illustrations from global examples.

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