The Feasibility of Progressive Development

  • It is a deeply entrenched belief that historic land use led to land degradation in the desert belts. Supposedly, overgrazing and farming caused erosion, and irrigation led to salinization. Considering the gaps in settlement history, mismanagement is considered a prime reason for abandonment [1–3]. If this is so, Progressive Development might be doomed to fail, because the soils are already degraded and will inevitably degrade further. Climate variations, however, can also lead to degradation, and might have caused the fluctuations of settlement history. The correct assessment of the past will be most important for evaluating the impact of Progressive Development. This and the geographic law of soil zonality allow predicting how soils and the environment will develop under irrigation and permanent vegetation.

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Author: Bernhard Lucke, Iourii Nikolskii, Hendrike Helbron, Dmitry PalekhovORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10640-8_16
ISBN:978-3-642-10639-2
Title of the source (English):Progressive Development : To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Document Type:Part of a book (chapter)
Language:English
Year of publication:2010
First Page:97
Last Page:101
Series ; volume number:Environmental Science and Engineering
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 2 Umwelt und Naturwissenschaften / FG Umweltplanung
Institution name at the time of publication:Fakultät für Umweltwissenschaften und Verfahrenstechnik (eBTU) / LS Umweltplanung
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