Desertification process as a great problem affects most of the countries in the world specially developing countries. This process has a high rate in arid and semi-arid countries such as Iran. The main objective of this research was to investigate land degradation status and desertification mapping of Kashan area. Different studies have been carried out in the world in order to assess desertifi...

To secure adequate food supply is the major challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Growing world population andits urbanization put pressure on this basic need, which is further threatened by the constant loss of fertile land. Theassessment of sustainability of food supply under increasing pressure on land resources has been selected as one of themost important priority topics ...

A number of indicators and signals that lend themselves to monitoring by remote-sensing satellites provide a warning of land degradation. These include loss of vegetative cover, wind and water erosion, soil salinization, deterioration of the soil structure, drier soil, increased reflectance, higher land surface temperatures, and changes in land cover type. But because soil and vegetation change...

Citation: Fleskens L, Kirkby MJ and Irvine BJ (2016) The PESERA-DESMICE Modeling Framework for Spatial Assessment of the Physical Impact and Economic Viability of Land Degradation Mitigation Technologies. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:31. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00031 The PESERA-DESMICE Modeling Framework for Spatial Assessment of the Physical Impact and Economic Viability of Land Degradation Mitigati...

Land degradation and soil erosion threaten agricultural productivity, food security and environmental sustainability. Because formation of new soil takes place over a period of thousands of years, in human terms it is essentially a finite resource. Human activity has accelerated erosion rates through inappropriate land management practices, most importantly soil sealing, deforestation and inten...

nowadays, environmental impact assessment (eia) is a one of planning tool that used for the prediction of environmental impacts. there are several methods to assess environmental impacts in the world. degradation model is one of the mathematics models that investigates and predicts data for assessing the impact of development. degradation model consist degradation coefficient per ecology unit, ...