The Rangelands of Libya (eBook)

Gustave Gintzburger, Slim Saïdi (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
672 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-80062-715-4 (ISBN)

Infos

up-to-date ecological, biological and agricultural detailed study about arid Mediterranean rangeland conditions and development for the benefit of rangeland users, scientists, botanists, ecologists, pastoralists, managers sociologists, economists, and decision makers from Morocco to Northern Pakistan

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Libya remains a land of mysteries with a harsh arid climate, a land rich in millenaries of troubled history, a land where the Sahara meet the Mediterranean Sea, a land where the West and the East Mediterranean merge. Libya is also a land where the desert and the sown intermingle in the steppe country where the rainfall is unpredictable, the soils are poor, rocky, saline, rendering rainfed cultivation hazardous, where grazing and rainfed cropping remained for long the only viable agricultural options. Over the past 60 years, oil resources allowed gigantic agricultural development projects, urbanization, road network expansion and well drilling. This changed the ways of life of rural populations, impacting and undoubtedly altering rangelands conditions and systems, as well as native vegetation cover, wildlife and land use.

This book reviews the past and current environmental and agricultural condition of the Libyan rangelands with example of how territories and resources are used by tribal communities. It describes, explains and illustrates the landscapes, the vegetation, the wildlife, the rainfed cereal systems and livestock systems, the reasons for the rampant overstocking, the relentless land clearing for hazardous cropping and uncertain irrigation projects, the wild fuelwood collection and charcoal manufacturing, triggering land degradation and desertification. Long-tested rangeland recovery and rehabilitation techniques in Libya are reviewed using appropriate plant material and proven establishment techniques with successes and failures assessed.

This book is offered in hopes of a better future for the Libyan people and the whole Mediterranean arid regions from Morocco to Pakistan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2025
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: arid mediterranean zone • arid zone forestry • bioclimatology • Desertification • fodder shrubs • fuelwood harvesting • land degradation • Phytogenetic Resources • rainfed cereal systems • rangeland ecology • rangeland livestock systems • rangeland restoration • rangeland soils • rangeland water resources • Water Harvesting
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-715-7 / 1800627157
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-715-4 / 9781800627154