Deserts do not advance, they are created: Land degradation and desertification in semiarid environments in the Middle Atlas, MoroccoRemote sensingMediterranean regionLivestock grazingFragmentationLandscape patt
enhance international cooperation to combat desertification and land degradation, and address drought. We hope the outcomes of this session will lead to a significant shift that
More than 75 percent of Earth's land area is already degraded, according to theEuropean Commission's World Atlas of Desertification, and more than 90 percent could become degraded by 2050. The commission's Joint Research Centre found that a total area half of the size of the European Union ...
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consensual definition to desertification was proposed by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD1994), as follows: “land degradation in arid, semiarid and subhumid areas, resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities”. However, D’Odorico et....
Organization’s “Provisional Methods for Desertification Assessment and Mapping”20, the “Field Survey Handbook on Land Degradation”21, and the “World Atlas of Desertification”22. In addition, Wang et al.23, Wu et al.24, Duan et al.25, and other scholars have used remote sensing imagery...
Climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, IPCC Special report on climate change and land: Call for experts- Outline of the Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse ...
and socioeconomic variables and their influence on land vulnerability to degradation. Figure 1 A stylized map of Italy with regional boundaries (this map was created using the Italian statistical atlas of municipalities, a free application downloaded fromwww.istat.it)....
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Niger Chapter© 2016 The Socioecological Implications of Land Use and Landscape Change in the Brazilian Amazon Chapter© 2016 Forced Modernization in Drylands: Socio-Ecological System Disruption in the Altiplano of San Luis Potosí, Mexico ...
Olsson, L.: Desertification or climate? Investigation regarding the relationship between land degradation and climate in Central Sudan. Lund Studies in Geography 60 (1983) Parry, M.L.: Climatic change and world agriculture. Earthscan, London 1990. ...