Table of Contents

  1. Authors and acknowledgements
  2. Introduction
    1. Aims
    2. Definitions and key concepts
    3. Synthesis of previous and ongoing projects
    4. Key issues and outline
  3. Evolution of desertification in the Mediterranean
    1. Climatic fluctuation
    2. Human influence
  4. Primary drivers of desertification
    1. Biophysical and socio-economic causes
    2. Pathways of desertification
    3. Driving forces in the Mediterranean
    4. Synthesis of causes for DESIRE hotspots
    5. Conclusions
  5. Processes and consequences of desertification in the Mediterranean
    1. Socio-economic and political factors
    2. Biophysical processes
    3. Conclusions
  6. Indicators: monitoring desertification
    1. History of monitoring
    2. Indicators
    3. Monitoring and mapping techniques
    4. Concluding remarks
  7. Modelling desertification
    1. Definition of modelling
    2. Model types
    3. Biophysical modelling
    4. Socio-economic and participatory modelling
    5. Gaps and progression in modelling
  8. Solutions
    1. Biophysical solutions
    2. Political and socio-economic solutions
  9. References