| Preface | p. IX |
| Acknowledgement | p. XI |
| Desertification and Global Climatic Change | |
| Into the Third Millennium: The Role of Stakeholder Groups in Reducing Desertification | p. 3 |
| The Impacts of Global Warming on the Geomorphology of Arid Lands | p. 13 |
| Desertification, Climate Change and the World's Drylands | p. 21 |
| Stalagmite Annual Layer Thickness as a Proxy for Enso and Rainfall: Evidence from Drotsky's Cave, Botswana | p. 27 |
| Evidence of Rain Shadow in the Geologic Record: Repeated Evaporite Accumulation at Extensional and Compressional Plate Margins | p. 45 |
| Optical Dating as a Tool for Studying Dune Reactivation, Accretion Rates and Desertification Over Decadal, Centennial and Millennial Time-Scales | p. 53 |
| Studies of Local Climate Change in United Arab Emirates Using Satellite Data | p. 61 |
| The Impacts of Global Climatic Change on Reference Crop Evapotranspiration, Irrigation Water Demands, Soil Salinity, and Desertification in Arabian Peninsula | p. 67 |
| The Response of Dry-region Alluvial Fans to Quaternary Climatic Change | p. 75 |
| Changes in Microclimate Tracked by the Evolving Vegetation Cover of the Holocene Beach Ridges of the United Arab Emirates | p. 91 |
| Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental Changes, Ardakan Kavir (Playa), Central Iran | p. 99 |
| Pleistocene Lakes in Central Sinai, Egypt | p. 111 |
| Hydrology and Climate Change (200 to 100 ka), Death Valley, California, USA | p. 117 |
| Chronostratigraphic Evidence for Episodes of Desertification since the Last Glacial Epoch in the Southern Margin of Thar Desert, India | p. 123 |
| Biodiversity, Mangroves and other Halophytes and their Conservation Ecosystems | |
| Desert Forages of the Arabian Peninsula--The Conservation and Utilization of Biodiversity for Sustainable Animal Production in the United Arab Emirates | p. 131 |
| Response of Meiofauna to Mangrove Degradation in a Dry Semi-Desert Coastal Habitat of the Red Sea (Sudan) | p. 139 |
| Biodiversity of Indian Saline Habitats and Management & Utilization of High Salinity Tolerant Plants with Industrial Application for Rehabilitation of Saline Areas | p. 151 |
| An Analysis of Biodiversity of the United Arab Emirates Flora Using Western's Flora | p. 173 |
| Feeding Camels and Sheep Sporobolus Grass Grown in Saline Desert Lands in the United Arab Emirates | p. 183 |
| Halophytes for Sustainable Biosaline Farming Systems in the Middle East | p. 187 |
| Biodiversity, Community Pattern and Status of Indian Mangroves | p. 205 |
| Effects of Protection from Grazing on Species Diversity, Abundance and Productivity in Two Regions of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | p. 217 |
| Remote Sensing Study on Mangrove Depletion Tarut Bay, Saudi Arabia | p. 227 |
| The Effect of Wind and Water on Soil Erosion and Sand Creep | |
| Late Holocene Sedimentation Processes Along the Arabian Gulf Coast in the Jubail Area, Saudi Arabia | p. 237 |
| Soil Fertility in Deserts: A Review on the Influence of Biological Soil Crusts and the Effect of Soil Surface Disturbance on Nutrient Inputs and Losses | p. 245 |
| Aspects of the Role of Biogeochemical Processes in Soils in the Global Carbon Cycle | p. 253 |
| Relations Between Wind Data and Geomorphology in Aeolian Sand Geodynamics | p. 263 |
| Dust Emission and Deposition in the Southwestern United States - Integrated Field, Remote Sensing, and Modeling Studies to Evaluate Response to Climatic Variability and Land Use | p. 271 |
| Recoverability of Severely Disturbed Soils and Vegetation in the Mojave Desert, California, USA | p. 283 |
| Wind Erosion and Dust Deposition in the Aral Sea Region: Possible Consequences of Unsustainable Human Activity | p. 291 |
| Barchan Dunes in Northern Kuwait | p. 299 |
| Environmental Measures to Control Sand Movement in Kuwait | p. 309 |
| Land Degradation and Management in Arid, Semi-Arid and Dry Sub-Humid Areas | |
| Herero, German and Afrikaner in Arid and Semi-Arid Eastern Namibia: Comparative Technologies for Water Use and Conservation | p. 317 |
| Soil Salinity as a Degradation Process in Spain and Tunisia | p. 327 |
| Restoring Soil Fertility of Desertified Lands Through Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Sudan | p. 335 |
| Land Degradation and Desertification in Libya | p. 339 |
| Land Resource Stresses and Degradation in the Arid Environment of Kuwait: An Overview | p. 351 |
| Management of Dry Land Forest Reserves in Sudan Based on Participatory Approach | p. 361 |
| Introduction of Non-conventional Salt Tolerant Crops Under Salt Affected Arable Land in Pakistan | p. 365 |
| Policies and Cost/Benefit for Combating Land Degradation and Desertification | |
| The International Convention on Desertification: the Preservation of Indigenous Technologies in Arab Countries of West Asia | p. 375 |
| Lessons from Rural Development of Relevance to Desertification | p. 381 |
| Sustainable Management of Rangelands and Agricultural Systems of the Drylands: The ICARDA Experience in Combating Desertification | p. 389 |
| Can Science and Technology Help to Initiate Natural Regreening of the Arabian Peninusula? | p. 399 |
| The Desert Environment in Iran | p. 407 |
| Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) to Study Desertification | |
| Using Satellite Imagery and GIS in the Mapping of Coastal Landscapes in an Arid Environment: Khor Al Bazam, Western Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | p. 415 |
| Geographical Information System Modeling of Groundwater Potentiality in the Northeastern Part of the United Arab Emirates | p. 423 |
| Radarsat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery Observation of Sand Dunes in Kuwait | p. 435 |
| Application of Remote Sensing for the Assessment of Environmental Changes in Western Kordofan State (Sudan) | p. 445 |
| Application of Remote Sensing and GIS to Study Erosion in Tunisia | p. 453 |
| Preliminary Study of Sand Erosion in South Khartoum Area, Sudan | p. 461 |
| Groundwater Resources in Desert Areas | |
| Groundwater Situation in the United Arab Emirates: An Overview | p. 469 |
| Sustainable Development of a Depletable Aquifer: A Case Study | p. 477 |
| Suitability of Groundwater for Irrigation in Kuwait | p. 487 |
| Author index | p. 491 |
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