Combating Desertification and Land Degradation: Spatial Strategies Using Vegetation (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)
Language: English
Published by Springer 2017-03-17, 2017
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- Title
- Combating Desertification and Land Degradation: Spatial Strategies Using Vegetation (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)
- Author
- Janet Hooke, Peter Sandercock, Gonzalo Gonzalez Barbera, Lorenzo Borselli, Carolina Boix-Fayos, Erik L.H. Cammeraat, Victor Castillo, Sara De Baets, Jan Peter Lesschen, Miguel Marchamalo
- Publisher
- Springer 2017-03-17
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- 2017
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- New
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 3319444492
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- 9783319444499
- Series
- Book 55 of 99: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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About the Author
Professor Janet Hooke geomorphologist, hydrologist and physical geographer with research interests in catchment processes and dynamics, flood incidence and impacts, connectivity, vegetation-flow interactions; impact of environmental and hydrological changes; catchment and channel management; sustainable management of catchments. Research on sustainable management of erosion and land degradation. Applied projects in coastal processes and sediment systems; sustainable management strategies on coasts.
· International reputation for geomorphological and landscape dynamics research.· Extensive publications on fluvial environments and environmental management.
· 30 years experience of field-based research projects.
· Research Group leader, and director of major research projects
· Chair succession, British Society for Geomorphology 1998-2001, Hon. Sec. 1989-92· On Editorial Board of journals Geomorphology and Catena
· Coordinator of EU project RECONDES examining spatial strategies of mitigating land degradation; production of practical guidelines
· Projects on geomorphological sensitivity and opportunities for channel restoration and flood mitigation of channel instability in Britain and implications for policy; evaluation of strategies for conservation of fluvial scientific sites.
· Research into effects of vegetation in channels and catchments and use in management of erosion and sedimentation in semi-arid lands.
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