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The End of Desertification?

Part of the Springer Earth System Sciences Book Series

Editors: Behnke, Roy; Mortimore, Michael

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16014-1

ISBN: 978-3-642-16013-4

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

Apr 13, 2016

1 - 10 of 20 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The End of Desertification?

Behnke, Roy; Mortimore, Michael

Pages: 1 –34

[The opening chapters of this book examine something that never occurred but was widely believed to have existed—the late 20th century desertification crisis in the Sahel. Recent advances in climatology and changing weather patterns have effectively terminated further scientific debate about the...
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Desertification in the Sahel: Local Practice Meets Global Narrative

Toulmin, Camilla; Brock, Karen

Pages: 37 –63

[For nearly a century, crisis narratives about desertification have dominated policy discourse on the Sahelian drylands. This chapter looks at some of the ways in which these have shaped policy interventions in the drylands over the decades, and how contemporary development thinking offers better...
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Changing Paradigms for People-Centred Development in the Sahel

Mortimore, Michael

Pages: 65 –98

[Key paradigm changes are discernible in the science of desertification or land degradation in the West African Sahel. These have been characterized as a shift from a ‘desertification’ to a ‘resilience’ paradigm. The first of these positions, based on an equilibrial model of social-ecological...
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Does Climate Change Lead to Conflicts in the Sahel?

Benjaminsen, Tor A.

Pages: 99 –116

[A dominant narrative in international politics and media presentations holds that there is a close connection between climate change and conflicts, especially conflicts involving pastoralists in the Sahel. The narrative consists of two elements: (1) Global climate change leads to drought and...
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The Map Is not the Territory: How Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground Evidence Have Re-shaped the Image of Sahelian Desertification

Herrmann, Stefanie M.; Sop, Tene Kwetche

Pages: 117 –145

[Satellite remote sensing, in particular the analysis of coarse resolution time series of vegetation indices, has played an important role in challenging earlier assumptions of widespread desertification in the Sahel. Findings of such analyses show a greening trend in much of the region since the...
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Desertification, Adaptation and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from Long Term Monitoring of Agro-ecosystems

Hiernaux, Pierre; Dardel, Cecile; Kergoat, Laurent; Mougin, Eric

Pages: 147 –178

[The desertification paradigm has a long history in the Sahel, from colonial to modern times. Despite scientific challenge, it continued to be influential after independence, revived by the dramatic droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, and was institutionalized at local, national and international...
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Land and Natural Resource Governance: Development Issues and Anti-Desertification Initiatives in Niger

Boubacar, Yamba

Pages: 179 –200

[Desertification in Niger is set in a context of poverty and rapid population growth, but significant advances have been achieved in natural resource management, in particular the wide and growing adoption of assisted natural regeneration of woody vegetation on farmland (régénération naturel...
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Deserts and Drylands Before the Age of Desertification

Davis, Diana K.

Pages: 203 –223

[This chapter analyses the deep and complex history of western thinking about deserts and desertification in the centuries before the word desertification was coined in 1927 by a French colonial forester. It shows that a relatively benign view of the drylands dominated in western thinking until...
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Where Does Desertification Occur? Mapping Dryland Degradation at Regional to Global Scales

Prince, Stephen D.

Pages: 225 –263

[To make sense of the controversies about Sahelian desertification, we must be able to assess objectively the processes, their location and level of threat to drylands and those who inhabit them. Surprisingly, after the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) was set up in 1977,...
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40 Years of Climate Modeling: The Causes of Late-20th Century Drought in the Sahel

Giannini, Alessandra

Pages: 265 –291

[This chapter reviews the evolution of our understanding of the causes of the late 20th century Sahel drought in the context of global climate model development. In describing, in coherent and holistic fashion, physical arguments for local and global influences on regional rainfall variability...

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