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Land Degradation Neutrality: Indian Examples

Agropedology, 2019
Discussions around climate change at times ignore soils, even though the major soil-forming factor is the climate (Bhattacharyya et al. 2014). Because land mass is fixed in quantity, there is an ever-increasing competition to control the fixed quantity of land resources in terms of their services for living organisms.
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Land degradation neutrality assessment and factors influencing it in China's arid and semiarid regions.

Science of the Total Environment
The ecosystems in China's arid and semiarid regions are notably fragile and experiencing dramatic land degradation. At the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP12) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in October 2015, a ...
Siyuan Feng   +4 more
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Land degradation neutrality under the SDGs: National and international implementation of the land degradation neutral world target

elni Review, 2015
On World Soil Day, December 5, 2013, the UN General Assembly announced that 2015 marked the ‘International Year of Soils’. This announcement aimed to promote the protection of soil and increase awareness and understanding of its importance. It seems that soil is now, after decades defined by a lack of attention and awareness, finally receiving a ...
Elisatbeth Dooley   +2 more
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Empowering communities and engaging stakeholders for sustainable land management: Advancing land degradation neutrality in Katsina State, Nigeria

The Scientific World Journal
This study evaluated the extent to which local communities and key stakeholders understood, supported, and were prepared to implement Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices that contribute to Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
W. M. Ibrahim   +3 more
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Land Degradation Neutrality: Concept development, practical applications and assessment

Journal of Environmental Management, 2017
The paper explores the background and scientific basis of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), a new paradigm reflecting the inter-related aspirations and demands of land-related sustainable development goals. The paper draws on academic literature, field observations, insight from development researchers and practitioners, professional meetings, and ...
German Kust   +2 more
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Creating land use-land cover baselines for monitoring Land Degradation Neutrality in Switzerland

2022
<p>The non-availability of annual land cover maps for Switzerland at the national and local levels hampers setting a Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) baseline (2000 – 2015) and monitoring until the year 2030. Land cover change is an LDN sub-indicator required to assess the proportion of degraded land to total land area ...
Akinyemi, Felicia O.   +2 more
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Toward an operational tool to integrate land degradation neutrality into land use planning: LUP4LDN

Land Degradation & Development
Land use planning (LUP) to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) needs methods and tools that support the identification of best LUP solutions in terms of transitions from current degradative land use (LU) and land management (LM) practices to better
Claudio Zucca   +8 more
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Sustainable Land Management and Land Degradation Neutrality

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022
O. V. Andreeva   +2 more
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