TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bossio, Deborah 
AU  - Bossio,Deborah
AU  - Geheb,Kim
TI  - Conserving land, protecting water
T2  -  Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series, 6
SN  - 9781845933876 (alk. paper)
U1  - 631.45 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Wallingford, UK, Cambridge, MA
PB  - CABI Pub.
KW  - Water-supply, Agricultural
KW  - Land degradation
KW  - Water conservation
N1  - Published in association with CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Includes index; Contributors		vii	
Series Foreword		ix	
Introduction		xi	
Part I: Land and Water Degradation: Emerging Issues
Learning from Bright Spots to Enhance Food Security and to Combat Degradation of Water and Land Resources
1	(19)
Frits Penning de Vries
Herbert Acquay
David Molden
Sarah Scherr
Christian Valentin
Olufunke Cofie
Land Degradation and Water Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes
20	(13)
Deborah Bossio
Andrew Noble
David Molden
Vinay Nangia
Land Degradation Ecosystem Services and Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in Makanya Catchment, Tanzania
33	(18)
Line J. Gordon
Elin I. Enfors
The Political Ecologies of Bright Spots
51	(18)
Kim Geheb
Everisto Mapedza
Large-scale Fluxes of Crop Nutrients in Food Cause Environmental Problems at Sources and at Sinks
69	(14)
Frits Penning de Vries
Carbon Sequestration, Land Degradation and Water
83	(24)
Antonio Trabucco
Deborah Bossio
Oliver van Straaten
Part II: Towards Better Land and Water Management
Local Innovation in `Green Water' Management
107	(13)
William Critchley
Girish Negi
Marit Brommer
Sustainability and Resilience of the Urban Agricultural Phenomenon in Africa
120	(9)
Pay Drechsel
Olufunke Cofie
Seydou Niang
Safeguarding Water Resources by Making the Land Greener: Knowledge Management through WOCAT
129	(20)
Hanspeter Liniger
William Critchley
Bright Basins-Do Many Brught Spots Make a Basin Shine?
149	(14)
Francis Gichuki
David Molden
The Influence of Plant Cover Structures on Water Fluxes in AgriculturaL Landscapes
163	(15)
Lech Ryszkowski
Andrzej Kedziora
Investments in Collective Capacity and Cocial Capital
178	(13)
Jules Pretty
Part III: Bright Spots
Bright Spots: Pathways to Ensuring Food Security and Environmental Integrity
191	(14)
Andrew Noble
Deborah Bossio
Jules Pretty
Frits Penning de Vries
Ecosystem Benefits of `Bright' Spots
205	(20)
Deborah Bossio
Andrew Noble
Boel Aloysius
Jules Pretty
Frits Penning de Vries
Index		225	
N2  - Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of global patterns of land and water degradation and discusses new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation, as well as their impact on food and environmental security. Drawing on the fields of ecology, agricultural and soil sciences, hydrology, development studies and political science, this book will provide both academics and policy makers with innovative ideas for how sustainable water use and food production can be achieved through the prevention of land degradation
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008003590.html
ER  -