Projektnummer

0059510

Zusammenfassung

Land degradation is of serious concern for populations living primarily off the natural resource base. This problem can be particularly acute in drylands, as it can lead to a loss of ecosystem services, and a reduction of livelihood security. Several challenges to the understanding of land degradation have been recognised, some of which stem from conceptual and methodological inconsistencies related to the various definitions of land degradation and from different scalar and disciplinary perspectives leading to contradictory results. Such inconsistencies have contributed to a gap betwe...