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DOI	10.3390/land11101798
	The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant-Past Perspectives and Future Implications
	Avni, Yoav
通讯作者	Avni, Y
来源期刊	LAND
EISSN	2073-445X
出版年	2022
卷号	11 期号:10
英文摘要	Terrace farming installations occupy vast desert areas in the Southern Levant. Their construction in harsh environments raises critical questions focusing on the natural, political, and economic circumstances promoting their construction and operation. The present review, based on new observations and previously published materials, focused on three different arid regions located across the Southern Levant, namely the Eastern Marmarica of Northwestern Egypt, the Negev Desert of Israel, and the Petra region in Jordan. The comparison between the regions allows us to uncover the forces behind this vast phenomenon, and to draw conclusions on the relevance of these arid zones to past and present agricultural productivity. The results of this study showed that the environmental conditions in the Southern Levant provided soil and water throughout the entire Holocene, and that terrace farming was a well-known method to the early inhabitants of the region. However, the actual implementation of the vast phase of terrace farming was diachronic across the region, according to the political and economic circumstances promoting their construction at each location. As enhanced desertification is expected to accelerate during the coming decades, the maintenance of agricultural terraces is vital for the conservation of agricultural productivity in the forthcoming warming world, especially in arid lands.
英文关键词	terrace farming ancient agriculture arid environments Southern Levant Negev Desert
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000872815800001
WOS关键词	DESERT RUNOFF AGRICULTURE ; NEGEV HIGHLANDS ; ENVIRONMENT ; SYSTEMS ; SETTLEMENT ; LANDSCAPE ; AREA ; OSL ; DESERTIFICATION ; PLEISTOCENE
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/393692
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Avni, Yoav. The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant-Past Perspectives and Future Implications[J],2022,11(10).
APA	Avni, Yoav.(2022).The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant-Past Perspectives and Future Implications.LAND,11(10).
MLA	Avni, Yoav."The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant-Past Perspectives and Future Implications".LAND 11.10(2022).

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