The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in
1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands
Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, sponsored
by UNESCO and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, experts considered the major issues then confronting the
worlda (TM)s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address
these issues.
The Future of Arid Lands a" Revisited, commissioned by UNESCO in
2005, reexamines this earlier work. Written by researchers from the
University of Arizona, this volume first looks at the state of
science in 1956 and attendant contemporary views of arid lands
development. It then considers how scientific understanding of the
processes governing arid lands has since evolved, before extracting
lessons from these comparisons that might guide current and future
arid land managers and speculating on what the future might hold
for arid lands.
Reflecting the shift in drylands thinking from a piecemeal or a
a ~magic bulleta (TM) approach to a systems-based approach that
considers people as integral to solving problems, this volume will
appeal not just to land managers, but to everyone involved in
environmental issues who wishes to gain a better understanding of
the state of arid lands science today.
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