Anthony Young

Land Resources

Now and for the Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stimulates awareness of the critical role of land resources in development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521785594
• ISBN-10: 0521785596
• Artikelnr.: 22481179

Autorenporträt

Anthony Young has published books on transportation, aerospace and social history. He lives in Tennessee.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on acronyms and currency
1. Concern for land
2. Land resource issues
3. Resource survey and land evaluation
4. Competition for land
5. Working with farmers
6. Land use planning
7. Land degradation
8. Global issues: climatic change and biodiversity
9. Monitoring change: land resource indicators
10. Costing the earth: the economic value of land resources
11. Land management: caring for resources
12. Research and technology
13. Land, food and people
14. Population, poverty and conflict
15. Awareness, attitudes and actions
Notes
References
Index.