The arid lands: history, power, knowledge
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
[2016]
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| Series: | History for a sustainable future
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xx, 271 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780262034524 |
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List of Illustrations ix
Foreword by Michael Egan xi
Preface xvii
List of Abbreviations xxi
1 Deserts, Dogma, and Dryland Development Policy 1
2 Strange, Wonderful, and Scary: Deserts in the Classical,
Early Christian, and Medieval Worlds 23
3 Exploration, Desiccation, and Improvement 49
4 Imperialism and the Desert Blame Game 81
5 The Twentieth Century: Desertification Comes
of Age 117
6 Conclusion: Embracing Variability in the Twenty-first
Century 155
Notes 177
Index 263
Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled,
worthless places, wastelands in need of develop-
ment. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-
desertification efforts—a multimUlion-dofiar global
campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis.
In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of
desertification have been significantly exaggerated
and that deserts and drylands—which constitute
about 41% of the earth’s iandmass—are actually re-
silient and biodiverse environments in which a great
many indigenous people have long lived sustainably.
Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development
programs and anti-desertification efforts have met
with little success. As Davis explains, these environ-
ments are not governed by the equilibrium ecologi-
cal dynamics that apply in most other regions.
Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as
wastelands derives largely from politically motivated
Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these re-
gions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of
the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still fre-
quently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology
and environmental history, Davis traces changes in
our understanding of deserts, from the benign views
of the classical era to Christian associations of the
desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial as-
sumptions of destruction. She further explains how
our thinking about deserts is problematically related
to our conceptions of forests (as the inverse of des-
erts) and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new
understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural,
but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily
need improvement or development will facilitate
a more sustainable future for the world’s magnifi-
cent drylands.
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