Climate change and human land management can cause desertification. The latter phenomenon is an environmental issue affecting many drylands on Earth. During previous decades many regions were affected by desertification, and various other areas are at risk of becoming so. Desert…
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Since the early twentieth century, Mexican migrants and immigrants have been an integral segment of the agricultural laborer force. As part of the traditional agrarian class model, Mexican farm laborers were physically, socially, and politically apart from rural communities. Mor…
Vegetation deterioration has received an increasing amount of attention in the last few decades. It is considered a main indicator of land degradation processes. The Tabuk area, located in the northwest region of Saudi Arabia, has experienced vegetation deterioration as the majo…
The 1991 Gulf War caused massive environmental damage in Kuwait. Deposition of oil and soot droplets from hundreds of burning oil-wells created a layer of tarcrete on the desert surface covering over 900 km2. This research investigates the spatial change in the tarcrete extent f…
Modern botanical folk classification theory developed from studies of small-scale agriculturists, secondarily of hunter-gatherers. This work explores the little-studied pastoral subsistence mode through an examination of plant classification and plant uses among nomadic, Najdī A…
This thesis provides a detailed case study of the havelis of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Jaisalmer was selected as the study area not only because of the abundance and richness of the havelis in this region, but also because of the extreme nature of the climate in and around the area.…
The present study is the first archaeologically based examination of the economic and cultural dynamics of Egypt's Eastern desert in the Hellenistic period (332–31 BCE). Using unpublished archaeological material in an investigation of this understudied region, it offers a more d…
Although soil mineral availability is among the most important factors controlling plant distributions, we have far more speculation than reliable knowledge about what traits adapt plants to different levels of nutrients. The studies which comprise this dissertation address a va…
I offer an account of the origin and functions of utopia that differs markedly from traditional accounts in literary history. I argue that the inception of utopia in the twelfth century is tied to the cultural and psychological work of imagining Western self and Oriental other i…
The desert serves as a crucible for processing and creating truth in the novels, novellas, and short stories by Argentine writer María Teresa Andruetto (b. 1954). Simultaneously a literal and figurative space, the desert embodies Argentine history and economic development with p…