Land quality, sustainable development and environmental degradation in agricultural districts: A computational approach based on entropy indexes

I Zambon, A Colantoni, M Carlucci, N Morrow… - Environmental Impact …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land Degradation (LD) in socio-environmental systems negatively impacts sustainable
development paths. This study proposes a framework to LD evaluation based on indicators …

Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities

J Huang, G Zhang, Y Zhang, X Guan… - Land Degradation & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems.
The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate change and human …

Influence of soil properties and feedstocks on biochar potential for carbon mineralization and improvement of infertile soils

A El-Naggar, SS Lee, YM Awad, X Yang, C Ryu… - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of biochar (BC) application on soil varies with BC feedstock and soil type. The
objective of this study was to investigate the linkage between the properties and surface …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
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 …

Contribution of raindrop impact to the change of soil physical properties and water erosion under semi-arid rainfalls

AR Vaezi, M Ahmadi, A Cerdà - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil erosion by water is a three-phase process that consists of detachment of soil particles
from the soil mass, transportation of detached particles either by raindrop impact or surface …

Site suitability analysis for potential agricultural land with spatial fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis in regional scale under semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem

B Özkan, O Dengiz, İD Turan - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The main purpose of this study is to identify suitable potential areas for agricultural activities
in the semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem in the Central Anatolia Region. MCDA was performed …

Identifying areas susceptible to desertification in the Brazilian northeast

RMSP Vieira, J Tomasella, RCS Alvalá, MF Sestini… - Solid Earth, 2015 - se.copernicus.org
Approximately 57% of the Brazilian northeast region is recognized as semi-arid land and
has been undergoing intense land use processes in the last decades, which have resulted …

Projections of desertification trends in Central Asia under global warming scenarios

X Ma, J Zhu, W Yan, C Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Central Asia (CA) is a core area of global desertification, but the effect of the intensifying
“global greening” policy on the desertification process under global warming scenarios in …

Ecological restoration is the dominant driver of the recent reversal of desertification in the Mu Us Desert (China)

Q Liu, Q Zhang, Y Yan, X Zhang, J Niu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Desertification is a major obstacle to global sustainable development, and effective
monitoring and an understanding of its driving factors are important for prevention and …

Combating land degradation and desertification: The land-use planning quandary

H Briassoulis - Land, 2019 - mdpi.com
Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect
land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of …