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Geoinformatics-based assessment of land degradation and ecological recovery (2004-2024) in the Phung River Basin, Northeast Thailand

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management
A geoinformatics-based assessment of land degradation and early ecological recovery was conducted in the Phung River Basin, Northeast Thailand between 2004 and 2024.
Narathip Ruksajai, Phayom Saraphirom, Worapong Lohpaisankrit   +2 more
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Remote sensing based assessment of land degradation neutrality across China: Multi-scale patterns and drivers

Ecological Indicators
Land Degradation (LD) compromises essential ecosystem services and threatens human wellbeing, posing a significant challenge to global sustainable development.
Qian Zhao, Xu Yang, Yue Xu, Kangyong Zhang, Zhongwen Hu, Yinghui Zhang, Chuan Jin, Jingzhe Wang   +7 more
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Land degradation neutrality. How to reverse land degradation with conservation agriculture practices?

, 2019
Land degradation is a global problem and is a consequence of natural, but even more to human activities. The target 15.3 (Goal 15 “life on land” from United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) aims to reduce desertification and restore land and degraded soil towards a World without land degradation.
Pereira, Paulo, Bogunovic, Igor
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Extent and drivers of land productivity degradation at the territorial level in Eastern DR Congo

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management
Land degradation is a global environmental problem that affects the livelihoods of communities. Understanding the extent and causative factors of this phenomenon is important to design the cause-targeted strategies to cope with this problem.
Jean Nacishali Nteranya, Andrew Kiplagat, Elias K Ucakuwun, Chantal Kabonyi Nzabandora   +3 more
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Delivering an enabling environment and multiple benefits for land degradation neutrality: Stakeholder perceptions and progress. [PDF]

Environ Sci Policy, 2020
Allen C, Metternicht G, Verburg P, Akhtar-Schuster M, Inacio da Cunha M, Sanchez Santivañez M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Land degradation and ecological restoration in central India: A geospatial and machine learning analysis of coal mining impacts

Trees, Forests and People
Coal mining, particularly open-cast mining, has become a critical industry to meet India's growing energy demands, contributing significantly to the country's economic growth.
Tarun Kumar Thakur, Digvesh Kumar Patel, Anita Thakur, Ranu Rathore, Kiran Kumar Eripogu, Joystu Dutta, Munesh Kumar   +6 more
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Strategies aimed at establishing land degradation neutrality of Venezuelan lands

Revista Gestión I+D, 2021
La globalización, así como los compromisos internacionales, demandan en las organizaciones, estrategias para el manejo eficiente de sus recursos y enfrentar los retos que representa el paradigma del desarrollo sostenible, actualmente orientado por la Agenda 2030 que, entre otros temas, insta a luchar contra la desertificación para lograr un mundo con ...
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Comprehensive Assessment of Sustainable Development of Terrestrial Ecosystem Based on SDG 15—A Case Study of Guilin City

Remote Sensing
Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) specifically targets the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands, along with their biodiversity. This study localizes the SDG 15
Hongyu Pan, Guang Liu, Jan-Peter Muller, Zhongchang Sun, Yuefeng Yao, Yao Chang, Zesen Xiong, Yuchen Zhang   +7 more
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Land Degradation Neutrality: Concepts and Implementation Mechanism

Annals of Arid Zone
All forms of life on Earth depend on ‘land’ through varied means, such as finding habitats, getting the right environment for human beings to survive, using land as substrate for agriculture etc. In the recent times, land-based ecosystem goods and services have gone to unprecedented levels of land exploitation causing a sharp increase in the process of
null Ajai, Rimjhim Bhatnagar, Ashutosh S. Arya   +2 more
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Using UAVs to Detect Fine-Scale Signals of Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in West African Drylands

Land
Experts have long associated West Africa’s drylands with extensive and severe land degradation. In fact, the term “desertification” was coined in reference to the great Sahelian droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. Thus, much research has focused on Sahelian
Devon Maloney, Colin Thor West, Alfredo J. Rojas, Aaron Moody, GEVAPAF   +4 more
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