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Desertification

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• Climatology
• Deserts

• Desertification -- Africa, Eastern
• Desertification -- Africa, Southern
• Desertification -- Congresses
• Desertification -- Control

• Aridization of land
• Desertization

• Perception of Desertification, ed. by R. L. Heathcote (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)
• Deserts: Geology and Resources, by A. S. Walker (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Grassroots Indicators for Desertification: Experience and Perspectives from Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by Helen Hambly and Tobias Onweng Angura (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Grassroots Indicators for Desertification: Experience and Perspectives from Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by Helen Hambly and Tobias Onweng Angura (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Social and Environmental Aspects of Desertification, ed. by J. A. Mabbutt and Andrew W. Wilson (HTML at UNU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate (London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1875), by James Croll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Principles and Methods of Tree-Ring Analysis (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #486, 1937), by Waldo S. Glock, contrib. by A. E. Douglass and G. A. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Climate and Transportation Solutions: Findings from the 2009 Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy Policy (Davis, CA: Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, c2010), ed. by Daniel Sperling and James Spencer Cannon (PDF files at UC Davis)
• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2006), ed. by Hans-Joachim Schnellnhuber, contrib. by Tony Blair (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• Engineering and Environmental Challenges: Technical Symposium on Earth Systems Engineering (2002), by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Natural Climate Variability On Decade-to-Century Time Scales, by National Research Council Climate Research Committee (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change, by National Research Council (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) (2009-) (full serial archives)
• La Presse Thermale et Climatique (partial serial archives)

• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• Bioclimatics: A Science of Life and Climate Relations (USDA miscellaneous publication #280; Washington: GPO, 1938), by A. D. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Climate Protection and Development (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Frank Ackerman, Richard Kozul-Wright, and Rob Vos (HTML at bloomsburycollections.com)
• Impasses of the Post-Global ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v2"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Henry Sussman (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities press)
• Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (c2012), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Telemorphosis ("Theory in the Era of Climate Change v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2012), ed. by Tom Cohen (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate (Chicago: Heartland Institute, c2008), by S. Fred Singer (PDF at heartland.org)
• Governing Climate: The Struggle For A Global Framework Beyond Kyoto (Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, c2005), ed. by Taishi Sugiyama (PDF with commentary at iisd.org)
• IPCC/TEAP Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System: Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons (2005), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and United Nations Environment Programme Technology and Economics Assessment Panel (PDF files at ipcc.ch)
• Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (2002), by National Research Council Committee on Abrupt Climate Change (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), by Jonathan H. Adler (PDF files at cei.org)
• Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by David Collings (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• Effects of Carbon Dioxide Buildup in the Atmosphere: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, on Carbon Dioxide Buildup in the Atmosphere, April 3, 1980 (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Forest Preservation in a Changing Climate: REDD+ and Indigenous and Community Rights in Indonesia and Tanzania (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Sébastien Jodoin (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Why Scientists Disagree on Global Warming (Arlington Heights, IL: Pub. for the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by the Heartland Institute, c2015), by Craig D. Idso, R. M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer (PDF with commentary at heartland.org)
• Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years (2006), by National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
• Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ipcc-wg2.org)
• IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ipcc.ch)
• Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means For Our Future, by John D. Cox (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
• Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ucar.edu)

• Principles and Methods of Tree-Ring Analysis (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #486, 1937), by Waldo S. Glock, contrib. by A. E. Douglass and G. A. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by David Collings (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment (2 volumes, 2017-2018), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- )
  • Volume I (Climate Science Special Report): illustrated HTML at globalchange.gov
  • Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States): illustrated HTML and PDF files at globalchange.gov
• The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2018), ed. by Vishwas Satgar (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Man of the North and the Man of the South: or, The Influence of Climate (New York: F. W. Christern; et al., 1864), by Charles Victor de Bonstetten
  • page images at MOA
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Effects of Past Global Change on Life (1995), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means For Our Future, by John D. Cox (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (4 volumes; 1895-1897), ed. by Patrick Geddes and William Sharp (multiple formats at 1890s.ca)

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