National Action Program to Combat Land Degradation
Author | : Palau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Convention on Desertification |
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Author | : Palau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Convention on Desertification |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Arid regions |
ISBN | : 9788988960110 |
Author | : Ephraim Nkonya |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2015-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319191683 |
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Author | : Md. Sohrab Ali |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 9789843400208 |
Author | : Victor R. Squires |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317394054 |
Greater Central Asia encompasses a vast area that includes deserts, natural grasslands, steppes, shrublands and alpine regions. Many of these land types are degraded and productivity is falling at a time when human populations and livestock inventories are on the rise. Ecosystem stability and biodiversity are under threat and there is an urgent need to develop more sustainable land management regimes. This book uses an integrated regional approach to provide a comprehensive exploration of sustainable land development in Central Asia. An interdisciplinary team of experts analyses the economic, ecological, sociological, technological and political factors surrounding sustainable land and water management in the region, sharing potential problems and solutions. As international concern about desertification grows, the book concludes by asking how the region is likely to develop in the future. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.
Author | : Ndegwa Ndiang'ui |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2007-08-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 3540724370 |
Based on an International Workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, this book presents state-of-the-art papers, real world applications, and innovative techniques for combating land degradation. It offers recommendations for effectively using weather and climate information for sustainable land management practices.
Author | : Willy H. Verheye |
Publisher | : EOLSS Publications |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 184826237X |
This Encyclopedia of Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Land is one of our most precious assets. It represents space, provides food and shelter, stores and filters water, and it is a base for urban and industrial development, road construction, leisure and many other social activities. Land is, however not unlimited in extent, and even when it is physically available its use is not necessarily free, either because of natural limitations (too cold, too steep, too wet or too dry, etc.) or because of constraints of access or land tenure. This 7-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.
Author | : Ibrakhimov, M. |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9251331170 |
This publication is an effort to describe the principles, history and main parts of the integrated natural resource management worldwide and in Uzbekistan, collect developed innovations, best practices and lessons learned in the field of natural resources management, and present existing issues related to the state and development of natural resources use and management. Specific attention has been made on the natural environments in the region of cold winter deserts of Uzbekistan.
Author | : |
Publisher | : GEF Evaluation Office |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stefano Pagiola |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780821344217 |
This book focuses on the global effects of land degradation, but emphasizes other important levels of land degradation: at the field level, it may result in reduced productivity; at the national level, it may cause flooding, and sedimentation; and, at the global level, it can contribute to climate changes, damaging bio-diversity, and international waters. The effects on climate changes are explored, and the report questions the extent to which land degradation on agricultural land, affects climate change. Does it increase emissions of greenhouse gases? Does it affect land's capacity to serve as a carbon sink? Can appropriate management enhance both land's productivity, and its capacity to store carbon? The carbon cycle in soils is analyzed, indicating land degradation is likely to reduce the ability of soils to serve as carbon sink, and release stored carbon into the atmosphere, and, bio-diversity effects are likely to be adverse. Global benefits of land degradation control, include afforestation, to allow increased carbon sequestration, and provide adequate bio-diversity habitats; and, community-based wildlife management, can provide alternatives to some marginal areas. Although integrating global dimensions into land degradation control projects, may reverse the field level, or national problems it is causing, difficulties and constraints will likely contribute to the failure of these projects.