Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia : An Integrated and Regional Perspective (Paperback)

Part I: Introduction1. Greater Central Asia: its peoples and their history and geography 2. Biogeography and natural resources of Greater Central Asia: an overview3. Managing the commons in the post-Soviet transition: what are the challenges of institutional change in pastoral systems in Uzbekistan?Part II: Sustainable land management: a dream or an economic and ecological imperative4. Sustainable land management: a pathway to sustainable development 5. The future we want: putting aspirations for a land degradation neutral world into practice in the GCA region6. Barriers to sustainable land management in Greater Central Asia: with special reference to the five former Soviet republicsPart III: The nature and extent of land degradation in Greater Central Asia7. Assessment of land degradation processes and identification of long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in the drylands of Greater Central Asia8. Land degradation indicators: development and implementation by remote sensing techniques9. Mitigation of desertification and land degradation impacts and multilateral cooperation in Greater Central AsiaPart IV: Thematic issues of SLM in Great Central Asia10. Water inCentral Asia: a cross-cutting management issue11. Water from the mountains of Greater Central Asia: a resource under threatPart V: Consolidating and summarizing findings: the way forward12. Greater Central Asia as the new frontier in the twenty-first century13. Greater Central Asia: China, Russia or multilateralism? 14. Unifying perspectives on land, water, people, national development and an agenda for future social-ecological research