Finally, recommendations to halt and reverse desertification are looked at together with attempts to mobilize the resources needed to face this global problem.doi:10.1016/0264-8377(86)90023-2TolbaMostafa KamalElsevier LtdLand Use PolicyTolba, M.K. (1986) Desertification in Africa. Land Use Policy...
China’s green belt in Taklamakan has set a remarkable example for the world in the fight against desertification. Similar initiatives, such as theGreat Green Wall of Africa, are being carried out in other parts of the world to combat environmental degradation.China‘s success offers a model th...
Desertification is a major environmental issue that is the focus of a recent UN convention (the CCD) that aims to improve the resolution of the problem.Desertification is however not a straight forward issue and has many controversial dimensions, in part due to confusion over its definition, ...
Today, human beings are facing the serious problem of land degradation. According to the UNCCD's report released in February, every second, an equivalent of four football fields of healthy land becomes degraded, adding up to a total of 100 million hectares every year. Land degradation results f...
Africais the continent most affected by desertification, and one of the most obvious natural borders on the landmass is the southern edge of theSaharadesert. The countries that lie on the edge of the Sahara are among the poorest in the world, and they are subject to periodicdroughtsthat devas...
Desertification has long been recognized as a major economic, social, and environmental problem of concern to many countries in all regions of the world. A Plan of Action to Combat Desertification (PACD) was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) in 1978 (UNCCD, 199...
Desertification is global problem in the world today. 当前,沙漠化已成为一个世界性的问题. 来自期刊摘选 13. Therefore, the process of desertification control is the SD process. 沙漠化全面治理的过程正是沙漠化地区向可持续发展的过程. 来自期刊摘选 14. Abstract: Desertification is the serious environment...
"Desertification is not just a major problem for China. Nations like lran and lrag face similar problems, as do countries in Africa, and even parts of the United States, In areas of the Middle East, desertification is also a huge public health issue and also drives instability and conflict...
It seems that all that can be agreed on is that it is "the most serious environmental problem facing Africa today" (Nsiah-Gyabaah, Kwasi. Environmental Degradation and Desertification in Ghana pg 27). At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Developments (Earth Summit, 1992) ...
Dressed in an egg-shell yellow boubou, she takes several of the sticks and begins to prepare a fire on which she will cook her family's dinner. Amma lives in Burkina Faso in West Africa. Largely made up of flat Sahel scrubland, this arid, land-locked nation is becoming increasingly ...