Title Land degradation and society / edited by Piers Blaikie, Harold Brookfield

Published Oxon : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge revivals Routledge revivals. Contents 1. Defining the problem / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield -- 2. Approaches to the study of land degradation / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield -- 3. Measuring land degradation / Mike Stocking -- 4. Decision-making in land management / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield -- 5. Economic costs and benefits of degradation and its repair -- 6. Colonialism, development and degradation / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield -- 7. Questions from history in the Mediterranean and western Europe / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield -- 8. Degradation under pre-capitalist social systems -- 9. Management, enterprise and politics in the development of the tropic rain forest lands -- 10. The degradation of common property resources -- 11. Land degradation in socialist countries -- 12. The farmer, the state and the land in developed market economies -- 13. Retropsect and prospect / Piers Blaikie and Harold Brookfield Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 5, 2015) Subject Land use -- History Land use -- Case studies Land degradation -- History Land degradation -- Case studies Agricultural conservation -- History Agricultural conservation -- Case studies BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. Agricultural conservation Land degradation Land use Genre/Form Electronic books Case studies History Form Electronic book Author Blaikie, Piers M., 1942- editor Brookfield, H. C., editor. ISBN 9781317411949 1317411943 9781315685366 1315685361 9781317411932 1317411935 9781317411925 1317411927 9781138923072 1138923079

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