Visions of planting walls of trees to block the expansion of the desert have long been
promoted but never realized. The green wall myth persists today even though it is premised …

The engineering interest about windblown sand is dictated by the harmful interactions
between sand and a number of human infrastructures in arid environments. Particularly, the …

Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Abstract The Algerian Saharan rangelands are an arid ecosystem characterized by limited
soil, water, and vegetation resources, which make it very susceptible to degradation. This …

Wind erosion is one of the main causes of land degradation and desertification. Clarifying
the spatiotemporal variations of wind erosion and the dominant factors of its spatial …

The operability of railways and highways built in sandy deserts decreases due to deflation,
transfer and loss of grains of sand from the wind-sand flow with a local decrease in wind …

Green walls and green dams are increasingly being considered as part of many national
and international desertification initiatives. This paper studies the spatiotemporal evolution …

Desertification is the persistent degradation of ecosystems caused by environmental
changes and human activities. This is a global problem closely related to climate change …

One way to address the crises of climate change and biodiversity loss is the rapid
deployment of so-called nature-based solutions (NbS). Coined in 2008, NbS have become …

There are various causes of desertification; deforestation and subsequent overgrazing play
a dominant role in the karst areas of southeastern Turkey, as in many Mediterranean …