Land degradation: Development and breakdown of terrestrial environments

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Land degradation: an overview 2. Why is land degradation occurring? 3. Land degradation through global pollution: the 'greenhouse effect' 4. Land degradation through global pollution: stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition and tropospheric ozone increase 5. Degradation of tropical rainforests, tropical/subtropical seasonally dry and tropical/subtropical upland forests, woodlands and scrublands 6. Degradation...