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Dry : life without water / Ehsan Masood, Daniel Schaffer, editors. - 1st ed - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006. - 192 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189) and index.

Nursing Sudans camels -- Burkina Fasos forest nurseries -- Innovation in Namibia -- Wetland conservation the Maasi way ASIA -- Green and Dry in China -- Drought-proofing with a difference -- Pakistan's micro-dam miracle -- High and dry -- LATIN AMERICA -- Fog catching -- A new life for Brazil's goat town -- Moving mountains -- Going for gold in the Andes MIDDLE EAST -- Saving Egypt's songbird -- Reclaiming Jordan's Badia desert -- No longer a man's world Oman's rose gardens.

0674022246 (alk. paper)

2005029424

GBA622886 bnb

013402937 Uk


Human ecology.
Desert ecology.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology.
Water-supply.
Water and civilization.
Water resources development.
Desert reclamation.
Desert resources development.
Arid regions--Environmental conditions.

GF55 / .D78 2006

304.25 / Cut M394