1. Land Degradation: Human and Physical Interactions -- 2. Land Use and Degradation in Historical Perspective -- 3. The Physical Domain and Land Degradation -- 4. The Physical Domain: Catalysts of Change -- 5. Unintentional Destructive Change in Interactive Systems -- 6. Unintentional Destructive Change in Interactive Systems: Impacts of Water Demands, Energy, Transportation, and Urbanization -- 7. Creative Destruction -- 8. Land Degradation and Creative Destruction: Retrospective
Analysis
Land Economics
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [306]-328) and index