Food security and climate shocks in Senegal: Who and where are the most vulnerable households?

EKI Nébié, D Ba, A Giannini - Global Food Security, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Sahel of West Africa, food security is a top development priority. Climate
shocks threaten communities that rely on a single rainy season to grow crops and raise …

[HTML][HTML] Desertification–scientific versus political realities

G Sterk, JJ Stoorvogel - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Desertification is defined as land degradation occurring in the global drylands. It is one of
the global problems targeted under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 15). The aim …

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 …

Climate and energy: energy transition scenarios and global temperature changes based on current technologies and trends

A Akaev, O Davydova - Reconsidering the limits to growth: A report to the …, 2023 - Springer
The chapter is devoted to the analysis of climate change issues and the transition to
renewable energy sources. The features of the current climate situation are associated with …

Closing global knowledge gaps: Producing generalized knowledge from case studies of social-ecological systems

NR Magliocca, EC Ellis, GRH Allington… - Global environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Concerns over rapid widespread changes in social-ecological systems and their
consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, food security, and human livelihoods …

Reduction of tree cover in West African woodlands and promotion in semi-arid farmlands

M Brandt, K Rasmussen, P Hiernaux, S Herrmann… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Woody vegetation in farmland acts as a carbon sink and provides ecosystem services for
local people, but no macroscale assessments of the impact of management and climate on …

Ecology: life in the “unstable biosphere”

N Kovaleva - Reconsidering the Limits to Growth: A Report to the …, 2023 - Springer
In this chapter, Kovaleva analyzes the modern ecological situation, characterized by an
imbalance in the circulation of matter and energy, reduction of the area of the active …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental rehabilitation and the vulnerability of the poor: The case of the Great Green Wall

MD Turner, T Carney, L Lawler, J Reynolds, L Kelly… - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Poor people in rural areas depend directly on functioning agroecosystems. Environmental
rehabilitation, culminating in the reestablishment of tree cover, is seen as improving …

Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning

PN Bernardino, W De Keersmaecker… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Changes in dryland ecosystem functioning are threatening the well‐being of human
populations worldwide, and land degradation, exacerbated by climate change, contributes …

Map** land use land cover transitions at different spatiotemporal scales in West Africa

B Asenso Barnieh, L Jia, M Menenti, J Zhou, Y Zeng - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Post-classification change detection was applied to examine the nature of Land Use Land
Cover (LULC) transitions in West Africa in three time intervals (1975–2000, 2000–2013, and …