The aim of this paper is to reassess the land degradation and desertification problem in South Africa. The country has a wide range of interrelated environmental and development challenges existing in a socio-political context recently subject to substantial change. The paper outlines the fundamental ...
Logging- Belize and Guyana still make money from logging/ lumbering This is the primary cause of deforestation. Forests are cleared for lumber/timber for export to various parts of the world where the demand is high. Commercial lumbering is done on a large scale in Guyana. Only valuable specie...
the rainforest of South America greatly influences the regional as well as the globalwater cycle. The source of clean water will be lost along with the loss of the forests. Also, they help in refilling the aquifers that are a vital source of groundwater. ...
A database of peer-reviewed research papers was compiled by searching for the terms “bush encroach*,”“brush encroach*,”“desertification,”“shrub grazing,”“shrub encroach,”“shrub invasion,”“shrub expansion,”“woody encroach*,” and “woody plant invasion” on the ISI Web of Knowledge...
Causes and Impact of Desertification in the Butana Area of Sudan. PhD Thesis, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.Elhag, MM. Causes and Impact of Desertification in the Butana Area of Sudan. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Free State, South Africa, pp. 171, 2006....
Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore.- 5. Narra- tives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shish- maref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical.- 6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced ...
SOUTH-AFRICAKENYADESERTIFICATIONVEGETATIONSoil erosion and land degradation are serious problems in tropical Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, where they are widely recognized as more serious problems than in non-tropical areas. Sub-Saharan Africa experiences deleterious levels of soil erosion, largely...
DSs contribute to desertification, drought, and soil salinity, reduce water supplies, and impede the use of renewable energy sources [21]. SDSs have environmental, health, social, and economic impacts. As severe natural SDSs frequently occur in arid and semi-arid regions, they often cause ...