A Guide For Desert And Dryland Restoration

 

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
 

 

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