Global Deserts Outlook

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ID United Nations Environment Programme

2006
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Contents

Foreword iv

Executive Summary.v

Reader’s Guidexii

Chapter 1 Natural History and Evolution of the World’s Deserts. 1

Chapter 2 People and Deserts 27

Chapter 3 Deserts and the Planet – Linkages between Deserts and Non-Deserts. 49

Chapter 4 State and Trends of the World’s Deserts. 73

Chapter 5 Challenges and Opportunities – Change, Development, and Conservation. 89

Chapter 6 Desert Outlook and Options for Action. 111

Appendix 1. 141

Appendix 2. 143

List of authors, reviewers and contributors. 145

Collaborating Centres. 147

Acknowledgements 148