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List of Boxes CHAPTER 1: Natural History and Evolution of the World’s Deserts Box 1.1: Desert Soils — It’s not all the same out there! CHAPTER 2: People and Deserts Box 2.1: Sonoran desert cornucopia — plants and animals in Native American culture Box 2.2: Desert nomads Box 2.3: People, pastures and protected areas in Mongolia’s Gobi desert Box 2.4: Oasis agriculture Box 2.5: Harvesting underground water Box 2.6: Plant domestication in desert environments Box 2.7: Mendoza, Argentina: Two faces of the desert Box 2.8: Cities and deserts Box 2.9: Las Vegas CHAPTER 3: Deserts and the Planet — Linkages between Deserts and Non-Deserts Box 3.1: The trajectory of a white stork, a soaring cross-desert migrant, tracked from space CHAPTER 4: State and Trends of the World’s Deserts Box 4.1: Biodiversity in Deserts: Origins and Patterns Box 4.2: Water pollution, soil erosion, and biodiversity in a Ramsar site in the desert Box 4.3: The paradigms of responses to land degradation in deserts CHAPTER 5: Challenges and Opportunities — Change, Development, and Conservation Box 5.1: A short history of globalization in deserts Box 5.2: Desert dreams Box 5.3: Water technologies for deserts Box 5.4: Solar and wind energy Box 5.5: Aquaculture in deserts Box 5.6: Harvesting desert plants CHAPTER 6: Desert Outlook and Options for Action Box 6.1: Emission scenarios Box 6.2: Re-mobilization of relict dune fields Box 6.3: Scenarios for snowpack in High Asia
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