-balance variation / Dirk Verschuren and Dan Charman -- Holocene rapid land-cover changes -- evidence and theory

of land grabs, war and famine, the Poll Tax threatens to destroy African patriarchy and with it

justice / François du Bois -- Land restitution and reconciliation in South Africa / Theunis Roux -- For

epidemics -- A "penis shrinker" -- Praying for a cure -- Priest in a mystic coma -- In the land of the dead

understand its land so well. But giant boats filled with white ghost-men are arriving, and their shores are

disaster follows: the Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something

fast that the currency can't keep up; where land seizures have made famine a real prospect; and where

land, changing ecosystems -- 5. Populations and biodiversity -- 6. Resources and environmental impact

. Environmental rights -- 6. Land rights -- 7. Housing rights -- 8. Health care rights -- 9.Food rights -- 10

constant threat of ruthless guerrillas prowling the land underscores everything, making each day more

(Borneo), and weird troglodytes. -- Deserts: Deserts make up a staggering 30 percent of the land's surface

revolution -- Floating people -- The land they left behind -- Consumers and citizens -- Culture shock