Global Environmental Research Vol.14 No.1
CONTENTS
Desertification Control and Restoration of Ecosystem Services in Northeast Asia
Preface	Toshiya OKURO
I ) New Perspectives in Desertification Issue
The Current Status of Desertification Issues with Special Reference to Sustainable Provision of Ecosystem Services in Northeast Asia	Toshiya OKURO
Aims, Principles and Measures for Combating Desertification in Northeast Asia	Tao WANG & Xian XUE
Paradigm Integration between Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Concepts for Evaluating Vegetation Dynamics in Rangeland Ecosystems	Takahiro SASAKI
Recent Trends in Soil Degradation Research in Drylands : Soil Organic Carbon, Tenperature and Water as Affected by Land Use and Climate Change	Aki HOSHINO
II ) Advances in Ecological and Engineering Approaches to Combating Desertification
Simultaneous Monitoring of Livestock Distribution and Desertification	Kensuke KAWAMURA & Tsuyoshi AKIYAMA
New Restoration Engineering in Northeast Asia	Ken YOSHIKAWA
Responses to Water Stress and a Functional-structural Growth Model of Plant Species Growing in Semi-arid Desertified Areas of Northeast Asia	H. SHIMIZU, S. ITO & H. SASAKAWA
Integrating Ecosystem Engineering and Spatial Heterogeneity Concepts: Toward a Biologically Diverse Mongolian Steppe	Yu YOSHIKAWA
III ) Integrated Approaches to Restoration and Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services
Is Desertification Reversion Sustainable in Northern China ? - A Case Study in Naiman County, Part of a Typical Agro-pastoral Transitional Zone in Inner-Mongolia, China	X. ZHAO et al.
Desertification Emerges through Cross-scale Interaction	T. OKAYASU et al.
Agro-climatological Aspects of the Global Warming and Its Impacton Paddy Rice Cultivation in East Asia	Yousay HAHASHI
Involvement of local communities in Restoration of Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rengeland	Ubdarmaa JAMSRAN

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