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- How oases work
Original title: Le fonctionnement oasien
Vincent Battesti in Vincent Battesti, Maël Crépy, Anthony Herrel, Aude Lalis & Denis Larpin (eds), Déserts, Vivre en milieu extrême
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Éditions grand public du Muséum, Paris, oct. 2024, p. 108‑113
ISBN: 978-2382790311
Notice: https://hal.science/hal-04823703
– Excerpt from the Introduction:
(…) Oases represent the combination, in arid and desert environments, of a settlement and a cultivated area, usually a palm grove. This organization is not “natural”; it cannot exist without human intervention. Oases are skillfully and ingeniously constructed spaces, maintained and transformed over the long term through the dedicated labor of generations of farmers. (…)
– See the page dedicated to the edited book Deserts. Living in an extreme environment.
This edited book accompanies the major exhibition Deserts which will open to the public at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution in the Jardin des Plantes of the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris in spring 2025.