Table of Contents

One: A Management Approach to Environment and Development.- 1. Proactive Planning and Interactive Management in Arid Frontier Development.- Two: Environmental Policy, Planning and Management: National, Regional and Multinational Dimensions.- 2. Drought Planning in the United States: Status and Future Directions.- 3. Interregional Environmental Policy in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin.- 4. Environmental Law and Management in the Gulf of Aqaba.- Three: Desertification and Climatic Variability in Arid Environments.- 5. Bioclimatic Aridity, Climatic Variability, Drought and Desertification: Definitions and Management Options.- 6. Environmental Science and Desertification at the Arid Frontier.- 7. Human-made Desertification in the Aral Sea Basin: Planning and Management Failures.- 8. Drought Risk Assessment for Dryland Agriculture in Semi-arid Telengana, Andhra Pradesh, India.- Four: Drought, Food and Land Management in Africa.- 9. Traditional Management of Drought and Famine in Kenya.- 10. Land Tenure Frontiers and Food Security among Maasai Pastoralists in Kenya.- 11. Gestion de Terroir at the Frontier: Village Land Management of Peasants and Pastoralists in Benin.- 12. Wild Plants as Food Security in Namibia and Senegal.- Five: Management of Water Resources.- 13. Irrigation Development: Proactive Planning and Interactive Management.- 14. Drought and Water Management in California.- 15. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Management Mega-Projects in India and China.- Six: Renewable Energy for Development of Arid Lands.- 16. Solar Energy in Arid Frontiers: Designing a Photovoltaic Power Plant for Kibbutz Samar, Israel.- 17. Rural Electrification with Renewable Energy: Geothermal Power in Arid Regions.- 18. The Fuelwood Crisis in Arid Zones: Runoff Agriculture for Renewable Energy Production.- 19. Lightweight Housing in Arid Zones: Thermal Comfort and Energy Use.

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