Desertification and development: Some broader contexts

Broader Visions Encompassing Literacy, Learners, and Contexts

I N THEIR ARTICLE "Visions and Revisions: A Special Education Perspective on the Whole Language Controversy," the authors describe two highly polarized approaches to reading instruction: whole language and direct instruction. This topic is of special importance and interest to us because, like the authors, we have been working in special education settings with teachers who have been trying to ...

Assessment of desertification hazard, risk and development of management plans

About 80 percent of Iran is arid and semi-arid and about 35 percent of this area is susceptible to desertification hazard. Therefore desertification assessment and identification of the most important criteria for the assessment of risk and a basis for development of management plans is essential. This research was conducted in the semi-arid region of Agh-Band in the Golestan province, Iran wit...

Desertification and Drought

Germany has made the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) since its creation an instrument of choice for its policy to combat desertification and drought and for sustainable management of land. More then ten years after the Convention has entered into force in 1996, Germany continues to view it as a key reference point and strategic instrument of its development cooperation.

The Effects of Urban and Industrial Development (Technogenic Desertification) in the desertification (Case Study: Eastern Region of Esfahan Province)

Rapid urban development in recent decades, has affected various aspects of social, economic, cultural, political and human environment. Negative environmental effects of urban growth have increased to such extent that is the largest threat in front of the ecosystem. One of the consequences of these negative environmental effects is ecological and biological capacitance reduction, also referred ...

Dry Lands and Desertification