Table of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Plenary Sessions -- Chapter 2. Climate -- Chapter 3. Underutilized Plants -- Chapter 4. Irrigation and Water Management -- Chapter S. Biosphere Reserves -- Chapter 6. Water Policy -- Chapter 7. Animal Resources -- Chapter 8. Desert Eeology -- Chapter 9. Crop Physiology and Agronomy -- Chapter 10. Urban Environments -- Chapter 11. Desertification -- Chapter 12. Land Intensification -- Chapter 13. Eeology of Nomadie Turkana hstonlists -- Chapter 14. Halophytes -- Chapter lS. Reclamation -- Chapter 16. Small-Scale Water Management -- Chapter 17. Culture and Demognphy -- Chapter 18. Soils -- Chapter 19. General Geography -- Chapter 20. Range Management -- Chapter ll. Economic Development -- Chapter 22. New Crops -- Chapter 23. Desert Riparian Systems and Reelamation -- Chapter 24. Concluding Remarks -- Keyword Index.