Book Chapters: Solutions
Chapter 5: Restoration approaches and planning Chapter 6: Restoration equipment and supplies Chapter 7: Project management Chapter 8: Soil salvage and restoration Chapter 9: Seed collection, storage and management Chapter 10: Container production and planting Chapter 11: Direct seeding Chapter 12: Water management and irrigation Chapter 13: Riparian restoration Chapter 14: Restoration in use Chapter 15: Restoration monitoring Chapter 16: The challenge ahead
RESOURCES AND LINKS
Society for Ecological Restoration International http://ser.org Soil Ecology and Restoration Group www.serg.sdsu.edu Arizona Riparian Council http://azriparian.asu.edu Desert Research Institute www.dri.edi Office of Arid Lands Studies www.arid.arizona.edu Ecological Restoration Institute www.eri.nau.edu/cms/ Land and Water Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/drylands/restoration.htm UNDP Drylands Development Centre www.undp.org/drylands/ International Arid Lands Consortium http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/IALC/Home.html Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center www.nmsu.edu/~dars/cdrrc.html Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute www.cdri.org/ Sonoran Institute www.sonoran.org Office of Arid Lands Studies www.arid.arizona.edu/ Agriculture Research Institute for Deserts www.arid.ucr.edu/ Desert Research Institute www.dri.edu International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas www.icarda.cgiar.org/ International Crop Research Institute for the Semiarid Tropics www.icrisat.org/ Centre for Science and Environment www.cseindia.org/ Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture www.tifac.org.in/offer/tsw/rural11.htm International Institute for Environment and Development www.iied.org/ Trees for the Future www.treesftf.org/main.htm World Agroforestry Centre (formerly ICRAF) www.worldagroforestrycentre.org Agroforestry Net www.agroforestry.net/ Sakia is an excellent information and communication service for “land and water” www.sakia.org/ Wright Paleohydrological Institute www.wrightwater.com/wpi/wpihome Permaculture Research Institute www.permaculture.org.au/ Sonoran Permaculture www.sonoranpermaculture.org/resrce.html Permaculture Institute www.permaculture.org Heifer Project International – see their ark project www.heifer.org International Livestock Research Institute www.ilri.org/ Practical Action (formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group) www.itdg.org/ Arava Institute for Environmental Studies www.desertagriculture.org/sustain.html Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research http://bidr.bgu.ac.il/bidr/ International Land Coalition www.landcoalition.org/ Land Tenure Center www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/ Institute of Development Studies www.ids.ac.uk/ids/ The National Ecological Observatory Network www.neoninc.org Long Term Ecological Research Program www.lter.net Digital Library of the Commons http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/biblio-subject.index.php The Last Straw, the international journal for straw bale and natural building http://thelaststraw.org Directory of Desert Research Institutions 1995 www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=
/docrep/V7245E/V7245E0e.htm
Book Chapters: problems
Chapter 1: Desertification: crisis and opportunity Chapter 2: Understanding the ecology of arid lands Chapter 3: The economics and psychology of desertification Chapter 4: Why the desert can't heal itself - understanding disturbance
Tools
Class materials Resources and links Appendix