Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Clark University · +4 more institutions
Abstract
In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent lessons about the functioning of dryland ecosystems and the livelihood systems of their human residents and introduce a new synthetic framework, the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP). The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 261.10
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 48
Authors
17- JFJames F. ReynoldsCorresponding
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clark University, Duke University, Drylands Research, Ecosystem Sciences, UCLouvain
- MSMark Stafford‐Smith
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clark University, Duke University, Drylands Research, Ecosystem Sciences, UCLouvain
- ÉFÉric F. Lambin
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clark University, Duke University, Drylands Research, Ecosystem Sciences, UCLouvain
- BLB. L. Turner
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clark University, Duke University, Drylands Research, Ecosystem Sciences, UCLouvain
- MMMichael Mortimore
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clark University, Duke University, Drylands Research, Ecosystem Sciences, UCLouvain
Topics & keywords
- Desertification
- Livelihood
- Safeguarding
- Sustainability
- Land degradation
- Environmental planning
- Environmental resource management
- Millennium Development Goals