Vetiver Grass: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion

by Panel on Vetiver, National Research Council, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, et al.

Book Overview

For developing nations, soil erosion is among the most chronic environmental and economic burdens. Vast amounts of topsoil are washed or blown away from arable land only to accumulate in rivers, reservoirs, harbors, and estuaries, thereby creating a double disaster: a vital resource disappears from where it is desperately needed and is deposited where it is equally unwanted.

Despite much rhetoric and effort, little has been done to overcome...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309042690
• ISBN13: 9780309042697
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Green Line for hope

I bought Thin Green Line after hearing it rate an excellent on a review over Voice Of America and I wasn't disappointed. To me its a useful work and inspiration in my struggle in Formosa to keep the mountains from being cashed in by speculators, banks, and developers. And, although it focuses on American law and strategy, one can draw useful examples from it no matter where one lives.