Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Contributors.- Section I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES .- 1. Eco-Reconstruction in Northwest China.- 2. Remote Sensing Assessment of Salinization Impacts in the Tarim Basin: the Delta Oasis of the Ugan and Kuqa Rivers.- 3. Estimating Net Primary Production in Xinjiang Through Remote Sensing.- 4. The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China .- 5. High Demand in a Land of Water Scarcity: Iran .- 6. Common Scarcity, Diverse Responses in the Maghreb Region.- 7. Global Food Production and Climate Change in Tunisia.- Section II: LEARNING FROM HISTORY.- 1. The Qanat: A Living History in Iran.- 2. Notes from the Turpan Basin: Pioneering Research on the Karez.- 3. An Introduction to the Khettara in Morocco: Two Contrasting Cases.- Appendix: Rehabilitating a Dead Khettara.- 4. Digitally Conserving an Endangered Built Heritage in Kashgar, an Oasis City of the Taklimakan.- 5. The Taklimakan Oases: Environmental Evolution Shown Through Geoarcheaology .- Section III: MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY.- 1. How the Predominance of Resources Informs Management .- 2. Conjunctive Water Management in the U.S. Southwest.- 3. Managing Water Amid Rapid Urbanization: Mexico\'s North Borderlands.- 4. Forecasting Streamflows in the San Juan River Basin in Argentina.- 5. Arsenic and Water Quality Challenges in South America.- 6. Evaluating the Restoration of Dryland Ecosystems in the Northern Mediterranean.- 7. Old and New: Changing Paradigms in Arid Lands Water Management.- Glossary of Units of Measurement and Chemical Formulas.- Subject Index