Combating Desertification in China

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.contributor.otherWalls, James
dc.coverage.spatialChina
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-18T14:58:10Z
dc.date.available2019-04-18T14:58:10Z
dc.date.issued1982
dc.descriptionIn 1951, the Advisory Committee on Arid Zone Research was established within UNESCO to organize the first systematic investigations into problems affecting and lands. As time passed, some 200 desert research institutes located in 40 countries collaborated in the production of the 30 large volumes of the UNESCO Arid Zone Research series. The agronomists and soils scientists at work on this project soon began pointing out that large amounts of productive land were being lost to agricultural use through a process they came to call "desertification". Their warnings, however, received comparatively little notice until world attention was caught by a severe drought in the West African Sahel that in the five years from 1968 to 1972 destroyed most of the livestock on the Sahelian pastures and threatened the lives of their human inhabitants.en
dc.formatpdf
dc.identifier.isbn92 807 1035 4
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27966
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number80 pages
dc.relation.ispartofUnited Nations Environment Programme, Reports and Proceedings Series 3
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectdesertification
dc.subjectwater resource
dc.subjectvegetation
dc.subjectsand dune
dc.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Land
dc.titleCombating Desertification in Chinaen
dc.typeTechnical report

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