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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Table of Contents:
- 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?.