ECONOMIC EXPORTS FROM DESERTS

MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE FROM NON-DESERTS TO DESERTS

Deserts are linked to non-desert areas not only through the global physical processes modulated by the atmosphere, such as climate, dust transport and river flow, but also through linkages between people, such as the two-way flow of goods and people between deserts and non-deserts. In the following section we highlight only the flow of goods and nature's assets from deserts and the flow of people into deserts.