This volume was first published in 1981. The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and dec
A collection of articles on the ecology of North American desert springs, by authors from the fields of biology, botany, ichthyology, conservation, geology and
Dryland degradation and desertification now affect almost a billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions o
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabi