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TODAY:
363 000 people were born
154 000 died
World population increased by 209 000
Annual world population increase:
2008 77 M, 2009 80 M, 2010 78 M, 2011 76
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Land
Resources:
Now
and for the Future
Anthony
Young, University of East Anglia
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This book promotes
awareness of the critical role of land resources in development,
and the urgent need for improvements in policy and action
on land management if these resources are to be conserved
to meet the needs of the future. It shows how land resources
interact with wider aspects of development, including
food security, poverty, economics and population policy.
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A. Young 1998. Land Resources: Now
and for the Future. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York,
USA, 319 pp.
Hardback
1998 ISBN 0 521 59003 5
Paperback
2000 ISBN 0 521 785596
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Concern for land
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Monitoring change: land resource indicators
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Land resource issues |
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Costing the earth: the economic value of land resources |
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Resource survey and land evaluation
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Land management: caring for resources
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Competition for land
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Research and technology
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Working with farmers
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Land, food and people
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Land use planning
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Population, poverty and conflict
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Land degradation
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Awareness, attitudes and action
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Global issues: climatic change and biodiversity
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Reviews of Land Resources:
Now and for the Future
"An important and authoritative
study... entertainingly written and most carefully structured...Its
message should be shouted from the rooftops." Tropical Agriculture
Association Newsletter.
"Dr Young has distillled
wisdom from a great deal of information ... His arguments are carefully
weighed, cogent and lucid ... deserves to be widely read."
European Journal of Soil Science.
"A quite remarkable book
... The writing style is exceptionally fluent ... deserves to reach
a wide audience." Geography.
"Clear, exciting and
thought-provoking...a major worldwide statement on the present and
future management of land resources." Area.
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