LAND MANAGEMENT AND POLICY RESPONSES TO MITIGATE DESERTIFICATION AND LAND DEGRADATION

Review of Case Studies on Successful Measures to Manage Land Use, Protect Land, and Mitigate Land Degradation

Land degradation is a major concern on matters relating to sustainable agricultural development and long-term food productivity in Africa. Not withstanding other factors, land degradation in most African countries has been driven by disparities in land distribution. This has led to a concentration of people on limited portions of land and the need to address their development needs and issues o...

Design and Development of Early Warning System for Desertification and Land Degradation

Early warning systems are key components of strategies to reduce risk. This research, by adopting a systematic approach in the management of the risk of desertification and by including previously developed models and systems, offers an integrated efficient structure in terms of early warning for the risk of desertification as a pilot system for semi-arid areas of west Golestan Province in IRAN...

Land Degradation and Soil Conservation Desertification: Causes and Strategies to Compete

Setting priorities for land management to mitigate climate change

BACKGROUND No consensus has been reached how to measure the effectiveness of climate change mitigation in the land-use sector and how to prioritize land use accordingly. We used the long-term cumulative and average sectorial C stocks in biomass, soil and products, C stock changes, the substitution of fossil energy and of energy-intensive products, and net present value (NPV) as evaluation crite...

Growth Management Policy and Land Use Change

The impact of growth management policy through zoning ordinances on land-use and -cover change is a topic of increasing interest, especially with regard to urban sprawl and forest and agricultural land preservation. As urban and residential land use is quickly replacing extractive land use in southern Indiana, implementation of growth management policy has become a topic of great debate. This a...