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Desertification: Migration, Health, Remediation and Local Governance
International Conference Brussels, 22 September, 2006
Edited by Danielle Swinne, André Ozer
This volume presents the proceedings of the international colloquium "The Signs of Which Times?" held at the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences in Brussels from 3 to 5 June 2010.
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- Publisher
- Académie royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer - Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen
- Edited by
- Danielle Swinne, André Ozer,
- Collection
- Actes des Séances publiques
- ISSN
- 00014176
- Language
- English, French
- Publisher Category
- Economics and Social Sciences > Political and Social Science
- BISAC Subject Heading
- POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE > SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES > 3081 Sciences sociales > 3100 Action sociale, aide sociale
- Title First Published
- 01 February 2013
- Type of Work
- Proceedings
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- Publication Date
- 01 January 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9789075652420
- Extent
- Main content page count : 182
- Code
- 9789075652420
- Weight
- 273 grams
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- 20.00 €
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Contents
CONTENTS
A. OZER. — Foreword
Opening Session
J. MARCHAL. — Welcome Address.
H.R.H. Prince Laurent of Belgium. — Opening Speech.
A. DE DECKER. — Introduction.
E. LAMBIN et al. — Coupled Human-Environment System Approaches to Desertification.
H. A. DIALLO. — Convention des Nations Unies sur la lutte contre la désertification.
Migration and Health
F. GEMENNE. — Coping with Desertification: Migration as a Forced Choice and a Livelihood
Strategy.
P. OZER. — Dust in the Wind and Public Health: Example from Mauritania.
M. EL BATTIUI. — L'eau: une arme contre la paix ou un instrument de coopération.
M. PHILIPS. — Health Problems in Areas of Human Vulnerability: Field Experience of Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF) in the Sahel Region.
Remediation and Local Governance
M. SOLH. — Building Livelihood, Saving Land: An Integrated Approach to Combat Desertification.
M. EYLETTERS et al. — The Quantification of the Vegetation Decline by Using Physiological Tools.
D. GABRIELS & T. SCHAAF. — Research Priorities to Promote Sustainable Development in Drylands:
Tunis Declaration.
S. BA. — Itinéraire d’un agent de l’administration du développement local: expériences et
enseignements d’une carrière.
A. KIELLO. — Désertification et société civile.
J.-M. K. AMBOUTA. — Note d’introduction du film «Quand le désert avance».
J. MARCHAL. — Conclusions.