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1. Controlling Tropical Deforestation

   Edited by Alan Grainger

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
2. The Threatening Desert

   Controlling desertification

   Edited by Alan Grainger

   Series: Natural Resource Management Set

   Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. It is certainly one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world today. In this book the author describes what is happening and where. Although the problem...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
3. Exploring Sustainable Development

   Geographical Perspectives

   Edited by Martin Purvis, Alan Grainger

   Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is...

   Published July 31st 2004 by Routledge