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Changing Deserts - Integrating People and Their Environments (Hardcover, New)
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Changing Deserts - Integrating People and Their Environments (Hardcover, New)
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Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The
very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat
and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large
variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as
magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept
encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-
covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock- strewn drylands of
Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to
peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with
a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as
they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands. The cultures,
environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally
entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring
different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary
Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of
researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history,
archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws
on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current
research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore
the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the
ever-evolving challenges they face.
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