Stewardship of Future Drylands and Climate Change in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for the Agenda 2030 (Paperback, 2020)

Chapter 1.- The construction and destruction of successful agricultural lands: case study of viticultural areas in Northern Mexico. Chapter 2.- Pastoralism and achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a missing piece of the puzzle. Chapter 3.- Trends in the use of groundwater in dry lands of Mexico: case of a complex urbanized socio.- ecosystem of the Chihuahua desert. Chapter 4.- The socio.- ecological systems approach to research the integrated aquifer management in an agricultural dryland in Mexico. Chapter 5.- Assessment of climate change impact on drought and flood regime using climatological data derived from GLDAS.- 1, GLDAS.- 2, and MERRA.- 2 over semi.- arid zones of northern Mexico: analysis of temporal patterns of precipitation. Chapter 6.- Understanding Drylands with a transdisciplinary and participatory approach: participatory observatories and the case of RISZA. Chapter 7.- Sustainable development Goals and drylands. Chapter 8.- Conservation and Development in the Mapimi Biosphere: a transdisciplinary and participatory project to understand climate change adaptation. Chapter 9.- Education for sustainable development (ESD): expert net as promoter of transdisciplinarity through the SDGs. Chapter 10.- The forced modernization of the Altiplano: disruption of the ecosystem function of the dryland zones in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Chapter 11.- Sustainable development in modern times: forgotten native communities in northwestern Mexico. Chapter 12.- Looking at the past to face the challenges for sustainable development in drylands: the protection of the biocultural heritage in the Tehuacan.- Cuicatlan Biosphere Reserve. Chapter 13.- The Agadir Platform: a tripartite transatlantic cooperation to achieve sustainable Dryland. Chapter 14.- The Atlas Workshops of Agdz, Morocco: a model region for a scientific.- artistic dialogue. Chapter 15.- Drylands, aridification and land governance in Latin America: a regional geospatial perspective. Chapter 16.- Vulnerability to the effects of climate change: coastal watersheds of arid Mexico. Chapter 17.- Desert experts through time: traditional hunter.- gatherers from Northern Mexico and its implications for resource management and governance. Chapter 18.- Governing drylands through Environmental Mainstreaming: how to cope with natural resources scarcity and climate change.