Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Land degradation: an overview

2. Why is land degradation occurring?

3. Land degradation through global pollution: the 'greenhouse effect'

4. Land degradation through global pollution

5. Degradation of tropical rainforests, tropical/subtropical seasonally dry and tropical/subtropical upland forests, woodlands and scrublands

6. Degradation of seasonally dry tropical/subtropical and Mediterranean woodlands and scrublands, temperate and high-latitude forests

7. The degradation of wetlands, tundra, uplands and islands

8. Land degradation in drylands

9. Non-erosive soil degradation

10. Erosive soil degradation

11. Land degradation through warfare, mineral extraction, industrial and urban development and increased movement of organisms

12. Conclusion

References

Index.