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Title:

Social and technological management in dry lands : past and present, indigenous and imposed / edited by Nancie L. González.

Publisher:

Published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceWashington, D.C.,

Copyright Date:

1978

Description:

xvi, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology.
Arid regions agriculture--Environmental aspects.
Desertification--Social aspects.
Droughts--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

González, Nancie L. Solien, 1929-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / Priscilla Copeland Reining. Some observations on adaptation to semi arid environments / Michael E. Moseley -- Farmers and technical experts : information flow in irrigated agriculture / Susan H. Lees -- Human use of the pre-Saharan ecosystem and its impact on desertization / William H. Bedoian -- Utilization of surface water by Northern Arabian Bedouins / F. S. Vidal -- Agroecosystem diversity : a model from the Sonoran Desert / Richard S. Felger, Gary P. Nabhan -- Rational choice model of agricultural resource utilization and conservation / John W. Bennett -- Drought versus desertification : the case of the Sahel / Sharon E. Nicholson -- Some observations on adaptation to semi arid environments / Priscilla Copeland Reining.

Series:

AAAS selected symposium ; 10

ISBN:

9780891584384
0891584382

OCLC:

(OCoLC)3540360

LCCN:

77093023

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)