Every year approximately half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern
Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use …

Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

Farmland abandonment in Europe is a major problem because of environmental,
socioeconomic and landscape implications. In this paper, a general view of the extent of …

Land use/land cover (LULC) and climate change affect the availability of water resources by
altering the magnitude of surface runoff, aquifer recharge, and river flows. The evaluation …

Semi-arid areas, defined as those areas of the world where water is an important limitation
for plant growth, have become the subject of increased interest due to the impacts of current …

Abstract Knowledge of the causes of forest fires, and of the main driving factors of ignition, is
an indispensable step towards effective fire prevention policies. This study analyses the …

Located across the equator, the East Africa region is among regions of Africa which have
previously known the severe vegetation degradation. Some known reasons are associated …

Land degradation and desertification has been ranked as a major environmental and social
issue for the coming decades. Thus, the observation and early detection of degradation is a …

Land degradation affects negatively the livelihoods and food security of global population.
There have been recurring efforts by the international community to identify the global extent …

Intense erosion processes are widespread in the Mediterranean region, and include sheet
wash erosion, rilling, gullying, shallow landsliding, and the development of large and active …