desertification- the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China" geologic process,geological process- (geology) a natural process whereby geol...
It is a semi-arid region situated in central India. Validation of the methodology is done using a training set consisting of 80 ground-truth points collected from the study area.The proposed model is semi-generic in nature. It can be used to map and monitor desertification hazard frequently ...
Accordingly to United Nations environmental programme (UNEP), 1979) in Asia and Pacific a total area of 4,361,000 sq. km. has been under desertification. Under this heading a brief overview of problems of desertification in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh has been given. 1. India: The Indi...
including animals which, in a virtuous cycle, attack and control pests. “Biodiversity is the driver of the farm,” adds Tolhurst. “If I’m asked ‘What do you grow?” I say ‘biodiversity’. The vegetables are a by-product.”
World map of desertification at a scale of 1:25 000 000 Only English ed. has the Annex. Scale 1:25,000,000, 11 p. of explanatory notes The explanatory note gives definitions and explains degrees of desertificati... Rome Italy FAO,Paris France UNESCO,Geneva Switzerland WMO,... 被引量:...
We used the spatial distribution of the DPR produced by the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 200042,43,44,45, together with the Desert Distribution Map of China produced by the Institute of Glaciology, Frozen ...
It has been argued that efforts to map desertification on a global and regional scale have been criticised for being sterile, inaccurate, and misleading. Such criticism has been made by experts such as Kong et al. (2021), as well as by Stringer et al. (2007). Similarly, attempts to stud...
The report, commissioned by the Foreign Office, and written by experts from the UK, US, China and India, is stark in its assessment of the wide-ranging dangers posed by unchecked global warming, including: very large risks to global food security, including a tripling of food prices ...
Developing countries including India, China and sub-Saharan Africa are some of the worst victims of land degradation, facing significant crop losses. Policymakers alarmed over the magnitude of land degradation have decided to take a concrete step to control the advance of sand. Recognizing ...
growing faster than the last several rounds of UN projections for 2050 suggested. This growth will be concentrated in the so-called Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and the African continent, but the number of people in India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the United States is also expected to ...