In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a general conspectus of arid zone geography. 17 authors from 8 countries contributed and the book deals comprehensively with all the main areas, with specific examples used to illustrate arguments. There are chapters on meteorology, geology, geomorphology, botany and zoology and almost 50% of the book is devoted to mans activities: irrigation and agriculture; industry; animal breeding and human survival in the desert.
In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a general conspectus of arid zone geography.
1. Arid Lands and Human Problems E. S. Hills
2. The Worlds Arid Areas
Gilbert F. White
3. Arid Zone Meteorology C. C. Wallén
4. Geomorphology E. S.
Hills, C. D. Ollier, C. R. Twidale
5. Water Supply, Use and Management F.
Dixey
6. Soils of Arid Lands T. N. Jewitt
7. Deserts in the Past K. W.
Butzer, C. R. Twidale
8. Plant Life in Deserts M. Kassas
9. Animals of the
Desert E. B. Edney
10. Man in Arid Lands: 1 Endemic Ciultures D. H. K. Amiran
11. Man in Arid Lands: 2 Patterns of Occupance D. H. K. Amiran
12. Irrigation
in Arid Lands Herbert Greene
13. Small-Scale Industry and Crafts in Arid
Regions X. De Planhol
14. Industrialisation E. S. Hills
15. The Use of Arid
and Semi-Arid Land R O. Whyte
16. The Improvement of Animals Through
Introductions and Breeding G. R. Moule
17. The Individual in the Desert
Douglas H. K. Lee
18. Social Life in the Arid Zones Lawrence Krader
19.
Deserts as Producing Regions Today Gilbert F. White
20. Research and the
Future of Arid Lands E. S. Hills.
E. S. Hills was Lecturer in Geology 1932-1944, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 1944-1962, Research Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1962-1971, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His interests were wide ranging and included fossil fishes, physiography, mineralogy and petrology, structure, tectonics and morphotectonics, and economic geology. He died in 1986
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