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Integrated assessments of land degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Land degradation has become a catastrophic global environmental issue. The current status of land degradation and changing trends of land remain unclear on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP).
Lin Yang, Guangju Zhao, Xingmin Mu, Zefan Lan, Juying Jiao, Shaoshan An, Yongqiu Wu, Puqiong Miping   +7 more
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Impact of Soil Sealing on Soil Carbon Sequestration, Water Storage Potentials and Biomass Productivity in Functional Urban Areas of the European Union and the United Kingdom

Land, 2022
The negative impacts of soil sealing are numerous, from withdrawing fertile soil from biomass production to modifying the microclimate and decreasing biodiversity. Many of the processes are interrelated and propagate further undesirable consequences from
Gergely Tóth, Eva Ivits, Gundula Prokop, Mirko Gregor, Jaume Fons-Esteve, Roger Milego Agràs, Emanuele Mancosu   +6 more
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Land Perspectives: People, Tenure, Planning, Tools, Space, and Health

Land, 2022
The global agendas on land and related issues (including agendas on land degradation neutrality, New Urban Agenda, climate change, United Nations’ decades on ecosystem restoration, and Sustainable Development Goals) are vulnerable to being neglected due ...
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Ruishan Chen, Chao Ye   +2 more
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Assessment of land degradation in Inner Mongolia between 2000 and 2020 based on remote sensing data

Geography and Sustainability, 2023
Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) worldwide is a significant target of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG15.3). Inner Mongolia, as a typical dryland region in northern China, has carried out several large-scale ecological restoration ...
Linlin Zhao, Kun Jia, Xin Liu, Jie Li, Mu Xia   +4 more
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Land Degradation Neutrality: State and Trend of Degradation at the Subnational Level in Mexico

Land, 2022
Identifying degraded lands and degradation trends is essential to determine measures that contribute to avoiding, reducing, and reversing the rate of deterioration of natural resources.
Itzel Arroyo, Virginia Cervantes, Víctor Tamaríz-Flores, Rosalía Castelán   +3 more
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Unpacking Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), An Emerging Paradigm to Conserve Land Systems’ Sustainability in the 21st Century? Meta-analysis of Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2022
The UN Sustainable Development Goals specifically note the growing importance of land degradation management and mitigation strategies, advocating for global collaboration and innovative research and policy outlook.
A. Kesavan, H. Kaur and S. Chaudhuri
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Soil organic carbon commitments under three Rio Conventions: Opportunities for integration

Soil Security, 2022
Agricultural land-based measures to protect and sequester soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are increasingly recognized and advocated for their benefits to address climate change, tackle food security, support ecosystem restoration, and maintain ...
Liesl Wiese-Rozanov
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Monitoring the Land Degradation Neutrality in Saline and Sodic Lands after Reclamation and Agricultural Activities

Türkiye Tarımsal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2020
Prevention of agricultural land degradation due to the natural or anthropogenic impacts and recovery of degraded lands have recently become among the strategic targets of many countries. In this context, the concept of land degradation neutrality (LDN)
Mesut BUDAK, Hikmet GÜNAL, Orhan Mete KILIÇ, Nurullah ACİR   +3 more
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Assessment of Land Degradation in Semiarid Tanzania—Using Multiscale Remote Sensing Datasets to Support Sustainable Development Goal 15.3

Remote Sensing, 2021
Monitoring land degradation (LD) to improve the measurement of the sustainable development goal (SDG) 15.3.1 indicator (“proportion of land that is degraded over a total land area”) is key to ensure a more sustainable future.
Jonathan Reith, Gohar Ghazaryan, Francis Muthoni, Olena Dubovyk   +3 more
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Land Degradation Neutrality — the modern approach for land management and policy-making

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2018
The land reform affected all the countries of the post-Soviet space and in the number of cases led to land degradation, as indicated in scientific literature and in the state reports.
G. S. Kust, O. V. Andreeva, V. А. Lobkovskiy   +2 more
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