Desertification

Essay # 57957

Environmental Studies > Economics and Policy
Environmental Studies > Environmental Problems

Desertification

An overview of this environmental danger and how it effects us.

2,500 words () | 12 sources | MLA | 2005

Paper Summary:

Desertification, which is the degradation of arable lands into deserts, is one of the very many environmental dangers that are facing us today, although desertification seems to be the most dangerous in relation to its immediate effect on human populations. The paper examines the phenomenon of desertification and analyzes it from the economic and humanitarian perspectives. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.

From the Paper:

"The point thus becomes the need for developed countries to provide the underdeveloped ones with such resources that would allow them to implement sound farming practices, without being effected in terms of drop in food production. The solution is to control the problem before it grows to critical levels. In the end, we all live on a single planet, and our food resources are negatively influenced by desertification. That is, it is a common problem, effecting us all, with the greatest responsibility for a solution lying with the developed countries due to the fact that they have both the financial means and technology to combat desertification."