Book ID: 113543
Whitehead, Emily E., Charles F. Hutchinson, Barbara N. Timmermann and Robert G. Varady (eds.)
Arid Lands. Today and Tomorrow. Proceedings of an International Research and Development Conference, Tucson, Arizona October 20 - 25, 1985. Publ. 1988. illus. (b/w). XIX, 1435 p. 4to. Cloth.
Second hand copy. Good condition. A heavy book (3.4 kg).
Covers a broad spectrum of subjects, among them e.g. climate, underutilized plants, irrigation and water management, biosphere reserves, animal resources, desert ecology, crop physiology and agronomy, desertification, halophytes, new crops, etc.