Restoring Degraded Land
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Key Resource14/11/2012 The UNCCD estimates that over 250 million people are affected by land degradation, and about 1 billion people in over 100 countries are at risk. According to the WMO, 33% of the world’s land surface is vulnerable to land degradation.Degraded lands lead to overall reduced productivity and reduced...
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01/01/1980 This book deals with the problems of derelict land on a global scale, and shows how the problems can be solved most effectively by a proper scientific understanding of the ecological factors which affect plant growth. Throughout the text, the viewpoint is one of a practical nature and the book...
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01/01/2012 ECHO Best Practices Note Notebook includes other articles, illustrated
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- Abstract, Agriculture, 2020 In this article, we operationalized a sustainability framing based on the Sustainable Rural Livelihood Resources Framework (SLF), which consists of five capitals—human, physical, social, financial, and natural. We proposed a sustainability index (SI) for two landscapes...
- Abstract, Aswan University Journal of Environmental Studies, 2021 One of the challenges that pose threats to human survival in these contemporary times is environmental degradation. The over-exploitation of natural resources is currently at an alarming rate in developing nations with an unabated...
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Chambi-Legoas Roger, Ortega Rodriguez Daigard Ricardo, Figueiredo Francisco de Marques de, Peña Valdeiglesias Joel, Zevallos Pollito Percy Amílcar, Marcelo-Peña Jose Luis, Rother Débora Cristina Natural Regeneration After Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for Restoration of...
- Hai Lin, Xinyi Jiang, Bing Li, Yingbo Dong, Ling Qian, Soilless revegetation: An efficient means of improving physicochemical properties and reshaping microbial communities of high-salty gold mine tailings, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111246....