Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Status of Drylands, Desertification and Land Degradation
3. Integrated Indicators of Desertification and Land Degradation
4. Processes and Causes of Desertification and Land Degradation
5. Consequences of Desertification and Land Degradation
6. Combating Processes of Desertification and Land Degradation
7. Desertification and Land Degration in India
8. Bio-Diversity in Susceptible Drylands
9. Dryland Plants and Their Uses
10. Carbon Sequestration in Drylands
11. Saline Soils in Drylands
12. Population and Desertification
13. Poverty and Environmental Degradation
14. Programmes for Combating Desertification, Land Degradation and Climate Change
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