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Chapter 7 Deserts
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The
desert environment:
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A good source for information on the
deserts of North America. Offers a general "What is a desert?"
section, an overview of North American deserts (with a discussion
of classification problems) and a detailed look at the Chihuahuan
Desert, the Great Basin Desert, the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran
Desert. There are also sections on minerals and geology; animals and
wildlife; plants and wildflowers; people and cultures.
http://www.desertusa.com/desert.html |
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The Unitarian
Service Committee of Canada:
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The site
of a Canadian charity working in a number of Third World countries
including Mali. Check out the information archive, reports and field
notes for an insight into the problems of rural communities facing
desertification in Mali. Very good links page to desertification sites,
including one to the excellent USC-sponsored, award-winning film River
of Sand (about fighting desertification in Mali).
http://www.usc-canada.org/ |
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The United
Nations Convention to Combat Diversification:
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A background
information paper on desertification and its causes; the main areas
of concern; the social, economic and political problems involved in
tackling the problem, and the objectives of the Convention. There
is a list of actions taken by individual countries. Site last updated:
1997.
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/sustdev/desert.htm |
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The DeMon project
site:
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An EU research project, DeMon (Desert Monitoring) offers an approach
to the study of land degradation in the Mediterranean basin using
satellite and other data. The small but interesting site contains
some excellent photos of degraded landscapes, together with an analysis
of ecozones, areas of biomass deficit and a soil erosion model.
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/fg/demon.html |
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