Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands

<p>Preface</p><p>1. Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach<br></p><p>2. The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art<br><br>3. Resilience, Self-organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation<br><br>4. Short-range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems<br><br>5. Long-range Ecogeomorphic Processes<br><br>6. Integrating Short- and Long-range Processes into Models: the Emergence of Pattern<br><br>7. Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems<br><br>8. Characterizing Patterns<br><br>9. Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems<br><br>10. Uncertainty assessment<br><br>11. Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes<br><br>12. Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence<br><br>13.  Case Study of Self-organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa<br><br>14.  Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe<br><br>15. Land Degradation in Drylands: Reёvaluating Pattern-process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology<br><br>Index</p>