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The economic effects of global warming have gained considerable attention in the recent economic literature. While the relationship between rainfall and agriculture is well known, precipitations alone do not capture the soil water availability, [...]
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We explored the relative importance of climate oscillations and human-driven disturbances on the change in vegetation biomass in agroecosystems, and whether it is associated with land use. Our main contribution is a quantitative treatment of the[...]
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In 2013, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) established a science–policy interface (SPI) to address Parties’ need for demand-driven, timely, interdisciplinary science and technical knowledge to tackle problems of des[...]
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A. Elnashar ; H. Zeng ; B. Wu ; T.G. Gebremicael ; K. Marie |Assessing environmentally sensitive areas (ESA) to desertification and understanding their primary drivers are necessary for applying targeted management practices to combat land degradation at the basin scale. We have developed the MEditerranea[...]
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A. Moumane ; J. Al Karkouri ; A. Benmansour ; F.E. El Ghazali ; J. Fico ; A. Karmaoui ; M. Batchi |Landsat time-series with 10-year intervals from 1991 to 2021 were used to extract information on land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the Ternata oasis over the past thirty years by using maximum likelihood classification (MLC) and the norm[...]
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Patrimoine. Dans les oasis du Grand Sud algérien - où l'eau est si précieuse - s'est développé un ingénieux système d'irrigation, les foggaras. Mais il est aujourd'hui remplacé par les pompes automatiques, menaçant tout un écosystème.
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O. Kairis ; A. Karamanos ; D. Voloudakis ; J. Kapsomenakis ; C. Aratzioglou ; C. Zerefos ; C. Kosmas |The impact of simulated future climate change on land degradation was assessed in three representative study sites of Thessaly, Greece, one of the country’s most important agronomic zones. Two possible scenarios were used for estimation of futur[...]
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R. Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir ; A. Marucci ; R. Salvia ; G. Quaranta ; A. Sateriano ; M. Cecchini ; L. Bianchini |This commentary debates on the role of multiple socioeconomic drivers of fringe land degradation (including, but not limited to, population and social dynamics, economic polarization, and developmental policies), as a novel contribution to the d[...]
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The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the intrinsic complexity of the phenomenon and the impossibility of measuring it using a si[...]
Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
M. Requier-Desjardins | 2022
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Desertification is a serious threat to human survival and to ecosystems, especially to inland desert oases. An assessment of desertification severity is essential to ensure national sustainable development for agricultural and land expansion pro[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
P. Lavigne Delville ; E. Léonard ; J.-P. Colin ; M. Requier-Desjardins ; P. Burnod ; J.L. Couture | Montpellier [France] : Pôle foncier de Montpellier | 2022Parallèlement aux phénomènes climatiques, la dégradation des terres résulte d’activités humaines qui surexploitent des écosystèmes. Or, rares sont les espaces vides et sans droits. Toute intervention sur un écosystème prend place dans des espace[...]
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R. Salvia ; G. Quaranta ; S. Cividino ; E. Cudlinova ; L. Salvati |This study examines the intrinsic relationship between land degradation and the accumulation of wealth at various planning scales in Italy, a desertification hotspot in Southern Europe. Local development was scrutinized at four planning scales ([...]
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L’effacement du couvert végétal dans les steppes de l’Est marocain, territoire vulnérable par nature en situation très déplorée, est subséquent aux phénomènes de défrichement et de mise en culture, de surcharge animale, de mitage urbain et de la[...]
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In the Mediterranean basin, edaphic salinization, sodification and alkalinization related to anthropic pressures and climatic changes may hinder the ecosystem sustainability. It is pertinent to study the mid and long-term variability of these so[...]
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Desertification is one of the most important problems facing arid and semi-arid regions, whether it is caused by irresponsible human activity or due to natural conditions or both. The objectives of the study were to assess the environmental sens[...]
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Sustainable land management practices can be suitable vehicles to simultaneously address the causes and consequences of land degradation, desertification, and climate change in land managed systems. Here, we assess the potential of a variety of [...]
Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Revue des régions arides, n. 46 (1) - Décembre 2020 - Actes du 6ème Meeting International sur l’Aridoculture et les Cultures Oasiennes sous le thème : "Agriculture Oasienne et Développement Durable" Tome 1
2020
Bulletin : Revue Electronique
Revue des régions arides, n. 46 (2) - Décembre 2020 - Actes du 6ème Meeting International sur l’Aridoculture et les Cultures Oasiennes sous le thème : "Agriculture Oasienne et Développement Durable" Tome 2
2020
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C. Tir ; K. Tantone ; D. Madani ; A.E. Cherief ; R. Benniou ; F. Hiouani |La désertification est un problème mondial qui touche 40% de la planète et au moins deux millions de personnes. Ce phénomène est le résultat de combinaisons de facteurs directs et indirects ; certains liés au climat et d’autres liés aux activité[...]
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Increasing dryland degradation and expansion shows that attempts to strengthen dryland resilience in the face of land degradation and climate change have not been successful. If current development pathways do not change, future prospects for th[...]
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Olive groves form characteristic Mediterranean socio-ecological landscapes, occupying more than 5 M ha; 2.5 M ha in Spain. In recent decades, traditional extensive management of olive groves has shifted to an intensive regime, with some cases of[...]
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R. Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir ; D. Smiraglia ; G. Quaranta ; R. Salvia ; L. Salvati ; A. Giménez-Morera |Land degradation is more evident where conditions of environmental vulnerability already exist because of arid climate and unsustainable forms of land exploitation. Consequently, semi-arid and dry areas have been identified as vulnerable land, r[...]
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Turkey's many and varied landscapes face the challenge of degradation and ultimately desertification due to soil problems that include organic matter deficiency, salinity-alkalinity, compaction and erosion and the loss of biological productivity[...]
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Z. Bensmira ; S. Bouju ; H. Benchaben ; M. Bensmira ; M.-L. Penin ; C. Noûs |Les effets des changements climatiques se sont accentués au cours des dernières décennies en Algérie, entraînant des conséquences importantes sur les systèmes de production. C’est le cas notamment dans la steppe, où l’agro-pastoralisme dépend fo[...]
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F. Benassi ; S. Cividino ; P. Cudlin ; A. Alhuseen ; G.R. Lamonica ; L. Salvati |The relationship between population dynamics and desertification risk in advanced economies is increasingly dependent on the mutual interplay of socioeconomic forces at regional and local scales. Assuming that specific, long-term demographic dyn[...]
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Desertification is a serious and perilous threat to natural ecosystems. Understanding the spatio-temporal characteristics of this process through the evaluation and monitoring of important indicators appears to be a challenging task. This resear[...]
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M. Türkes ; T. Öztas ; E. Tercan ; G. Erpul ; A. Karagöz ; O. Dengiz ; O. Dogan ; K. Sahin ; B. Avcioglu |Producing a scientific desertification risk map has become one of the national primary tasks in order to effectively combat desertification in Turkey. In this respect, General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion in cooperation w[...]
Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper
S. Kronich, ed. ; L. Maghen, ed. | Barcelone [Espagne] : IEMed | Euromesco Joint Policy Study, ISSN 2462-4519 | 2020Over the last decades, the Middle East, and more specifically the Eastern Mediterranean region, has experienced a rapid process of desertification. In water-scarce areas, access to water is thus of key importance for economic prosperity, politi[...]
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