Preface

1. Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach

2. The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art
3. Resilience, Self-organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation
4. Short-range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems
5. Long-range Ecogeomorphic Processes
6. Integrating Short- and Long-range Processes into Models: the Emergence of Pattern
7. Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems
8. Characterizing Patterns
9. Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems
10. Uncertainty assessment
11. Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes
12. Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence
13.  Case Study of Self-organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa
14.  Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe
15. Land Degradation in Drylands: Re¿valuating Pattern-process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology
Index

This book explores the theory of ecogeomorphic pattern-process linkages, using case studies from Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. Sets forth a research agenda for the emerging field of ecogeomorphology in drylands land-degradation studies.