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Land degradation neutrality: Testing the indicator in a temperate agricultural landscape

Journal of Environmental Management, 2023
Land degradation directly affects around 25% of land globally, undermining progress on most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly target 15.3. To assess land degradation, SDG indicator 15.3.1 combines sub-indicators of productivity, soil carbon and land cover.
Thomas, Amy, Bentley, Laura, Feeney, Chris, Lofts, Stephen, Robb, Ciaran, Rowe, Ed C., Thomson, Amanda, Warren-Thomas, Eleanor, Emmett, Bridget   +8 more
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Global land degradation hotspots based on multiple methods and indicators

Ecological Indicators
Land degradation is a major impediment to achieving sustainable development. However, there is currently no harmonized global map of land degradation status and hotspots. This paper aims to obtain the status and hotspots map of global land degradation by
Kang Jiang, Adriaan J. Teuling, Xiao Chen, Na Huang, Jialin Wang, Ziyuan Zhang, Riping Gao, Jingyu Men, Zhenzhen Zhang, Yao Wu, Linlin Cai, Zhefan Huang, Zice Ma, Zhihua Pan   +13 more
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Towards Land Consumption Neutrality and Natural Capital Enhancement at Urban Landscape Scale

Land, 2023
Among the UNCCD SDGs 2030, there is the recognition that land consumption can strongly affect the provision of ecosystem services. From the perspective of land degradation neutrality, urban level is the right scale when planning actions against land ...
Donatella Valente, Erica Maria Lovello, Cosimo Gaspare Giannuzzi, Angela Maria Scardia Scardia, Maria Victoria Marinelli, Irene Petrosillo   +5 more
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Non-Standard Discrete RothC Models for Soil Carbon Dynamics

Axioms, 2021
Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is one of the key indicators of land degradation. SOC positively affects soil functions with regard to habitats, biological diversity and soil fertility; therefore, a reduction in the SOC stock of soil results in degradation ...
Fasma Diele, Carmela Marangi, Angela Martiradonna   +2 more
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Editorial: Ecological restoration in drylands: toward land degradation neutrality

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been defined as “a state whereby the amount and quality of land resources necessary to support ecosystem functions and services remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems.”
Jifeng Deng, Jifeng Deng, Jifeng Deng, Shengbo Xie, Shengbo Xie, Guanglei Gao, Hamid Gholami   +6 more
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Land Assessment in Russia Based on the Concept of Land Degradation Neutrality

Regional Research of Russia, 2020
Abstract—The Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) concept is a result of the development of global experience in assessing land degradation over the past 40 years and is worked out to harmonize different national methods for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the sustainable development indicator 15.3.1: “proportion of land that is degraded ...
O. V. Andreeva, G. S. Kust
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Asian Dryland Ecohealth Progress for Land Degradation Neutrality

Journal of Remote Sensing
The 2030 global agenda deadline intensifies the urgency to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with SDG 15.3 aiming for land degradation neutrality (LDN).
Patient Mindje Kayumba, Yaning Chen, Mapendo Mindje, Sikandar Ali, Richard Mind’je, Michelle DeFreese, Brigitte Nyirambangutse, Yanan Hu   +7 more
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Multi-Sensor Evaluating Effects of an Ecological Water Diversion Project on Land Degradation in the Heihe River Basin, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020
To deal with the increasingly severe land degradation in the downstream of the Heihe River Basin (HRB) in northwest China, an Ecological Water Diversion Project (EWDP) was implemented since 2000.
Xiang Song, Xiang Song, Jie Liao, Jie Liao, Xian Xue, Xian Xue, Youhua Ran   +6 more
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Use of Variable Matrices of Land Cover Changes for the Assessment of Land Dynamics Based on the Indicators of Land Degradation Neutrality

Russian Journal of Earth Sciences
The article presents the results of land degradation assessment for the Ryazan and Tula regions based on the concept of land degradation neutrality (LDN).
Kust German, Lobkovskiy Vasiliy, Lobkovskaya Ludmila, Podlesnov Vladimir, Movchan Michail, Antipova Anna   +5 more
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Desertification and Agrifood Systems: Restoration of Degraded Agricultural Lands in the Arab Region

Agriculture
The FAO estimates that 1660 million hectares globally are degraded due to human activities, with over 60% of this degradation affecting agricultural lands, including croplands and pastures.
Feras Ziadat, Giulia Conchedda, Fidaa Haddad, Jeremiah Njeru, Aurélie Brès, Mona Dawelbait, Lifeng Li   +6 more
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