Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies

• Hovedforfatter: Ahearn, Ariell (auth)
• Andre forfattere: Sternberg, Troy (auth)
• Format: Electronisk Book Chapter
• Sprog: engelsk
• Udgivet: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Fag: regeneration; drylands; invasive vine; riparian ecosystems; Kazakhstan; Mongolian grassland; human health; charisma; water rights; political ecology; the Hovmoller diagram; Mongolia; common-pool resource; desertification; afforestation; continuous grazing; arid area; tamarind age; land use change; mountains of Central Asia; soil carbon storage; social movements; case study of nomadic and settlement grazing system; Afar; protest; social-ecological systems; Central Asia; Asian dust; subarctic agriculture; Jordan River Basin; conservation; protected areas; water productivity; national parks; disturbance; dryland; increase of growing season; Sanjiangyuan region; policy implementation; partnerships; snow index; global carbon balance; dust storm emission; Jordan; One Belt; local farming; decoupling; water security; environmental impacts; groundwater; Kashgar Region; Gobi; Palestine; degrading; property rights; One Road; aerodynamic roughness; Israel; desert; fodder demand; spatial migration model; vegetation survey; agricultural water intensity; dry lake beds; LUCC; communal rangelands; subversive clientelism; Tibetan Plateau; ecotone; river basin development; livestock; environmental justice; computational fluid dynamics; Japan; remote sensing; climate hazard; mining; Chobe; modelling; sustainable livelihoods; water; pastoralism; environmental regime shift; erosion; institutional change; Gobi desert of Mongolia; Cuchillas de la Zarca; non-linear change; Ethiopia; cross correlation analysis; farming at its limits; absence; New Silk Road; drag partition; cellular automata; agriculture; China; SPOT VGT; grass height; co-management; Belt and Road Initiative; wind erosion modelling; Kyrgyzstan; KAZA; dust storm outbreak; coverage; desert reclamation; nomadic pastoralism; fodder supply; soil quality index; vegetation response to precipitation; driving forces; grassland degradation; environment; Nyangatom; rotational grazing; drought; Asia; infrastructure; Southern Africa; Gobi Desert region; Sonoran desert; South Omo; arid region; land cover/land use; drip irrigation; risk; air temperature increase; the Shiyang River Basin; forest resources; landscape; ecosystem services; Greenland; economic valuation
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Understanding deserts and drylands is essential, as arid landscapes cover >40% of the Earth and are home to two billion people. Today's problematic environment-human interaction needs contemporary knowledge to address dryland complexity. Physical dimensions in arid zones-land systems, climat...