Land Degradation: Creation and Destruction

by Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis

Book Overview

This up-to-date, second edition of Land Degradation explores substantial decreases in the land's biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. Case studies_including tourist impacts in Europe, the environmental footprints of urban areas, wetland drainage for agriculture in the American Midwest, run-on farming in the Negev, land degradation in the Amazon Basin, and irrigation in Egypt_cover the history of land degradation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742519473
• ISBN13: 9780742519473
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"