Greening the mountain deserts
- Dehradun Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh 1996
- 186 p.
The cold deserts have their own characteristics of isolation, marginality and low level of development which is hampered due to a variety of social, cultural, economic, biotic and ecological factors. An insight view to the efficient resource planning for greening the cold desert have been given in this book. The book is divided in 4 parts, the first looks at the nature, causes and extend of desertification and the development models, the second describes about the conservation measures alongwith analysis for development and evaluation for controlling desertification and the third elucidates about the personnel and financial aspects and the fourth component deals with the recommendations and benefits.