Governing Global Desertification Linking Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Participation

Karel Mayrand, Pierre-Marc Johnson, Marc Paquin — 2006

This volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. It studies the links between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification.