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From Land Degradation to Land Restoration

Policy Papers & Briefs
January 2022
Africa
Tanzania
Western Africa
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
food security
climate change
desertification
land degradation
drylands
land cover change
land use
land use change
land tenure
tenure insecurity

Key Messages and Recommendations

• Combating desertification and land degradation while mitigating the effects of drought can secure long-term socio-economic benefits for people living in drylands and reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

Quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate and land-cover changes on urban flood runoffs: a case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Journal Articles & Books
December 2021
Tanzania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
climate change
land cover
land cover change
land use
land use change

Over the past half-century, the risk of urban flooding in Dar es Salaam has increased due to changes in land cover coupled with climatic changes. This paper aimed to quantify the impacts of climate and land-cover changes on the magnitudes and frequencies of flood runoffs in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Assessing sponge cities performance at city scale using remotely sensed LULC changes: Case study Nanjing

Journal Articles & Books
March 2021
Land, Climate Change & Environment
geographical information systems
land use
land use change

As a result of high-density urbanization and climate change, both the frequency and intensity of extreme urban rainfall are increasing. Drainage systems are not designed to cope with this increase, and as a result, floods are becoming more common in cities, particularly in the rapidly growing cities of China.

Birds and Bioenergy within the Americas: A Cross-National, Social–Ecological Study of Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs

Peer-reviewed publication
March 2021
Argentina
Brazil
Mexico
United States of America
Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
biodiversity
land use
land use change

Although renewable energy holds great promise in mitigating climate change, there are socioeconomic and ecological tradeoffs related to each form of renewable energy. Forest-related bioenergy is especially controversial, because tree plantations often replace land that could be used to grow food crops and can have negative impacts on biodiversity.

Modeling urban development and its exposure to river flood risk in Southeast Asia

Journal Articles & Books
March 2021
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development
land use
land use change
urban areas
urbanization

Countries in Southeast Asia have been developing quickly from a predominantly rural to predominantly urban society, leading to a rapid increase in urban land. This increase in urban land has mainly occurred in river deltas and floodplains, exposing humans and human assets to flood hazard.

Examining the effects of green revolution led agricultural expansion on net ecosystem service values in India using multiple valuation approaches

Journal Articles & Books
March 2021
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change

Ecosystem Services (ESs) are bundles of natural processes and functions that are essential for human well-being, subsistence, and livelihoods. The ‘Green Revolution’ (GR) has substantial impact on the agricultural landscape and ESs in India. However, the effects of GR on ESs have not been adequately documented and analyzed.

Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy

Journal Articles & Books
March 2021
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land use change

As the impact of climate change on the agricultural sector has begun to manifest itself in its severity, adaptation planning has come under scrutiny for favoring the preservation of status-quo conditions over more substantial changes.

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