In northwestern China, desertification is a major ecological problem that has increasingly limited development of the local economy13. To control desertification, the Chinese government implemented a series of large-scale mitigation programs, including the Three Norths Shelter Forest Program and the Combat...
South Asia is located in the tropics and subtropics and therefore has warm or hot temperatures all year with the exception of elevated areas. It is bounded to the north by the Himalayas and Tibet Plateau, the highest mountain range in the wor...
It projects the Nile and the wider environment outside its riverine zone (in this case the desert) as two worlds where the resources of the former are just enough for the riverine population while the poor rural population whose rapid increase has caused degradation remain responsible for what ...
Genuinely sustainable growth implies that economic activity can grow as needed without adding yet more emissions. This is the holy grail of “absolute decoupling”. But so far, any decoupling has either been largely relative – in the sense of merely achieving higher rates of economic growth than...
Simply put, climate change contributes to more intense and frequent sudden-onset disasters, such as cyclones, and slow-onset disasters, such as desertification (IPCC 2021). This aggravates stressors people are already experiencing (hence the idea that climate change is a “threat multiplier”) and...
Desertification is the process in which arable land turns into a desert. It can happen naturally, but it is also caused by...