The role of Remote Sensing in land degradation assessments: opportunities and challenges

O Dubovyk - European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Land degradation (LD) is one of the biggest global challenges for the people's livelihoods
and environment. Remote Sensing plays an unprecedented role in LD map** …

Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability

Y Lü, D Lü, X Feng, B Fu - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2021 - Elsevier
Dryland sustainability is a challenging global concern because of the comparatively low
natural and socioeconomic carrying capacities. Land degradation neutrality is a challenging …

Monitoring and assessment of land degradation and desertification: towards new conceptual and integrated approaches

JV Vogt, U Safriel, G Von Maltitz… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
needs agreed, scientifically sound and practical methodologies for monitoring and …

Cross‐scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: A methodological framework for knowledge management

MS Reed, M Buenemann, J Atlhopheng… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For land degradation monitoring and assessment (M&A) to be accurate and for sustainable
land management (SLM) to be effective, it is necessary to incorporate multiple knowledges …

Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales

S Sommer, C Zucca, A Grainger… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper suggests how the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD) community can progressively make use of a flexible framework of analytical …

[图书][B] Land degradation, desertification and climate change: Anticipating, assessing and adapting to future change

MS Reed, LC Stringer - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate
change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how …

Towards sustainable land management in the drylands: scientific connections in monitoring and assessing dryland degradation, climate change and biodiversity

AL Cowie, TD Penman, L Gorissen… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and its sister
conventions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the …

Experiences in monitoring and assessment of sustainable land management

G Schwilch, B Bestelmeyer, S Bunning… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Although sustainable land management (SLM) is widely promoted to prevent and mitigate
land degradation and desertification, its monitoring and assessment (M&A) has received …