How have Hot Deserts been traditionally used?

Learning Objectives:
To know how hot deserts have been traditionally used in LEDCs. To understand contemporary economic development in deserts in richer and poorer parts of the world.

PASTORALISM
The Baluchi of Pakistan

Key Q: What are the issues and challenges being faced by traditional users of the desert?

Contemporary Economic Development in Hot Deserts

Deserts offer prime opportunity for development. Can be exploited as they are not in the fore front of peoples minds Development contrasted drastically between LEDCs and MEDCs.

Opportunities in the Desert

Where is this?

The Burj Khalifa, is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft).

TOURISM Dubai Land

Tourism in deserts nothing new

Case Study: MEDC Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, Western USA
Using the available resources complete the case study sheet:
Resource sheet Nelson Thornes, pages 98 -99 Heinemann, pages 66 - 67 Issues & Environments 148 149

Review: Can development in deserts be sustainable?

Baluchian/Thar Pakistan Dubai UAE Sonoran/Great Basin - USA

What do you think the challenges are going to be for the future??

WHY ARE THESE CHALLENGES? Many people think the deserts sunny weather and warm climate are the perfect reason to... Businesses also bring more and more people into the desert. As populations in desert cities rise, so does Many desert streams, rivers, and lakes once used by animals... Water used for irrigation contains salts

WORRYING PROOF: The dry, cracked Lake Mead lake-bed near Las Vegas. The severe drought since 2000 has seen the Lake Powell and Lake Mead reservoirs, which hold water for human needs downstream, shrink to 50% or less of normal.