Land degradation:an o-verview. Eswaran H,Lal R,Reich P F. Response to Land Degradation . 2001Eswaran H, Lal R, Reich PF. 2001. Land degradation: An overview. In: Bridges, EM,Hannam ID, Oldeman LR, Pening de Vries FWT, Scherr SJ, Sompatpanit S, eds.Responses to Land Degradation....
Given the global scope of land degradation, considering both its causes and impacts, there is an environmental and a socio-economic imperative to address it as an underlying threat to peace and security, from the scale of local communities to that of entire continents. This chapter will briefly...
Climate and Land Degradation — an Overview 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 63 作者:MVK Sivakumar,R Stefanski 摘要: The definition of land degradation in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) gives explicit recognition to climatic variations as one of the major ...
Land degradation is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries. However its impact is especially severe on the livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. Despite the severe impact of land degradation on the poor and ...
Monitoring landscapes in times of climate change patterns is a crucial issue, moreover, in the analyzed Mediterranean area, one of the major global candidates to develop land degradation stresses and consequential desertification phenomena. The research presented here is developed in the Mediterranean Bas...
Deforestation, in turn, is the prime cause of soil degradation and loss of freshwater in South America and Asia and a major contributor to soil degradation on other continents. Erosion adversely affects crop productivity by reducing the water-holding capacity of the soil, water availability, ...
Determining the characteristics to profile the "green" consumer: an exploratory approach The concern with environmental degradation favoured the sprouting of a new segment of consumers: the green consumers. Thistype of consumer has been describ... Arminda,M.,Finisterra,... - 《International Review...
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement: An Introduction and Overview In Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement--A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development; Nkonya, E., Mirzabaev, A., von Braun, J., Eds.; ... E Nkonya,A Mirzabaev,JV Braun - Springer International Publishing...
These accidents can involve explosions, fires, the release of deadly gases, and severe environmental degradation. Evacuations may be necessary to protect the surrounding population, and rescue efforts are difficult or impossible without proper equipment and training. On Jul. 6, 2013, a parked and ...
Describing this as the ‘tragedy of the commons,’ he concluded that either government ownership or privatization of the commons was necessary to forestall this degradation since ‘freedom of the commons brings ruin to all.’ However, subsequent work by resource geographers and anthropologists has ...