Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

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...

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Kaituhi rangatōpū: SpringerLink (Online service)
Ētahi atu kaituhi: Nkonya, Ephraim (Editor), Mirzabaev, Alisher (Editor), von Braun, Joachim (Editor)
Hōputu: Tāhiko īPukapuka
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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Urunga tuihono:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19168-3
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Rārangi ihirangi:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Concepts and Methods
  • Methods
  • Institutional Framework of Taking Action Against Land Degradation
  • Part II: Global
  • Global Extent Of Land Degradation
  • Ground-Truthing of Land Degradation Mapping
  • The Global Cost of Land Degradation
  • Global Drivers of Land Degradation
  • ELD in Global Rangelands
  • Part III: Regional
  • ELD in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • ELD in Central Asia
  • Part IV: Country Case Studies: Cost, Drivers and Action Against of Land Degradation
  • Argentina
  • Bhutan
  • China
  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Niger
  • Russia
  • Senegal
  • Tanzania and Malawi.-Uzbekistan
  • Part V: Lessons Learnt and Implications
  • What Can We Learn from the Cost of Inaction Against Land Degradation?
  • What Can We Learn from the Success Stories of Addressing or Preventing Land Degradation?
  • What are the Low-hanging Fruits for Addressing Land Degradation?.-What the World Needs to do to Build Momentum of Addressing Land Degradation?.