Water scarcity affects 1–2 billion people globally, most of whom live in drylands. Under
projected climate change, millions more people will be living under conditions of severe …

The desertification baseline is the standard to measure the severity of desertification and is
imperative to achieve the target of land degradation neutrality of UN Sustainable …

Due to extreme climatic conditions and unreasonable human activities, the Hexi Corridor is
facing a serious threat of desertification. Based on the soil quality index (SQI) …

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 …

Desertification in Kazakhstan affects the country's environment, agriculture and animal
husbandry. It is critical to quickly and accurately identify the locations of desertification land …

Land degradation has become one of the most critical environmental and socioeconomic
issues in the world, particularly in Central Asia. Moreover, the realization of Land …

Achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) is considered critical to achieving sustainable
development goals. However, further research and an improved large-scale desertification …

The increasing frequency and intensity of droughts in a warming climate are likely to
exacerbate adverse impacts on ecosystems, especially for water-limited regions such as …

The transitional characteristics of desert grasslands in the Sahel determine the ecosystem's
fragility, which is extremely susceptible to the expansion and reversal of land desertification …

Desertification has hampered eco-environment sustainable development in arid, semi-arid,
and dry sub-humid areas. However, the effect of the desertification process on vegetation …