Как избежать климатических катастроф? План Б 4.0: спасение цивилизации

5 Lester R. Brown. Outgrowing the Earth (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), pp. 101–102.

6 Walter C. Lowdermilk, Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years . USDA Bulletin No. 99 (Washington, DC: USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 1939).

7 Там же p. 10.

8 FAO, “FAO/WFP Crop and Food Assessment Mission to Lesotho Special Report”, – www.fao.org, просмотрено автором 29 мая 2002 г.; U. N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database – eas.un.org/unpp, обновлено 11 марта 2009 г.; Michael Grunwald, «Bizarre Weather Ravages Africans’ Crops”, Washington Post , 7 January 2003.

9 USDA, op. cit. note 2; U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), “Lesotho” – см.: www.wfp.org/countries/lesotho; просмотрено автором 5 мая 2009 г.

10 USDA, op. cit. note 2; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (Rome: 2006), p. 193; WFP, “Haiti” – см.: www.wfp.org/countries/ haiti; просмотрено автором 5 мая 2009 г.

11 U. N. Environmental Programme (UNEP), Mongolia: State of the Environment 2002 (Pathumthani, Thailand: Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2001), pp. 3–7; U. N. Population Division, op. cit note 8; USDA, op. cit. note 2.

12 FAO, “More People Than Ever are Victims of Hunger”, background note (Rome: June 2009).

13 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory, “Dust Storm off Western Sahara Coast” – см.: earthobservatory.nasa.gov; просмотрено автором 9 января 2005 г.

14 Paul Brown, “4x4 Replace the Desert Camel and Whip Up a Worldwide Dust Storm”, Guardian (London), 20 August 2004.

15 Там же.

16 Ann Schrader, “Latest Import from China: Haze”, Denver Post , 18 April 2001; Brown, op. cit. note 14.

17 Howard W. French, “China’s Growing Deserts Are Suffocating Korea”, New York Times, 14 April 2002.

18 Количество пыльных бурь в Китае см. в Таблице 1–1 книги: Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, and Bernie Fischlowitz Roberts, The Earth Policy Reader (New York: W.W. Norton&Company, 2002, p.13).

19 U. S. Embassy, “Desert Mergers and Acquisitions”, Beijing Environment, Science, and Technology Update (Beijing: 19 July 2002), p. 2.

20 Asif Farrukh , Pakistan Grain and Feed Annual Report 2002 (Islamabad, Pakistan: USDA Foreign Agricultiral Service, 2003).

21 UNEP, Africa Environment Outlook: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives (Nairobi: 2002).

22 Оценка площади территории взята из книги: Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian, and Sara J. Scherr, Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Agroecosystems (Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute and WRI, 2000), p. 3; FAO, ProdSTAT – электронная база данных: faostat.fao.org, обновлено в июне 2009 г.

23 Численность пастухов взята из публикации: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003 (Rome: 2003), p. 15; Robin P. White, Siobhan Murray, and Mark Rohweder, Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems: Grassland Ecosystems (Washington, DC: WRI, 2000); U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; FAO, op. cit. note 22; Southern African Development Coordination Conference, SADCC Agriculture: Toward 2000 (Rome: FAO, 1984).

24 Government of Nigeria, Combating Desertification and Mitigating the Effects of Drough in Nigeria , Revised National Report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Nigeria: April 2002); U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; FAO, op. cit. note 22.

25 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; FAO, op. cit. note 22; Iranian News Agency, “Official Warns of Impending Desertification Catastrophe in Southeast Iran”, BBC International Reports , 29 September 2002.

26 UNEP, Afganistan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment (Geneva: 2003), p. 52.

27 FAO, op. cit. note 22.

28 Wang Tao et al., «A Study on Spatial-temporal Changes of Sandy Desertified Land During Last 5 Decades in North China”, Acta Geographica Sinica , vol. 59 (2004), pp. 203–212.

29 Wang Tao, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, сообщение автору книги, посланное по электронной почте 4 апреля 2004 г.; Wang Tao, «The Process and Its Control of Sandy Desertification in Northern China”, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciences, seminar on desertification, Lanzhou, China, May 2002.