Global assessment of land degradation and improvement: 1. Identification by remote sensing

By Z. Bai, D. Dent, Lars E. Olsson, Michael E. Schaepman. 2008

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Environmental Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Global change pressures on soils from land use and management (2016, background): “Twenty-three per cent of degrading land is under broadleaved forest, 19% under needle-leaved forests and 20–25% on rangeland (Bai et al., 2008).”
• Accurate crop yield predictions from modelling tree-crop interactions in gliricidia-maize agroforestry (2017, background): “In much of sub-Saharan Africa there is a projected decline in per capita food availability (Rosen et al., 2012) that is exacerbated by land degradation already affecting a third of the land area (Bai et al., 2008; Tittonell and Giller, 2013; Vågen et al., 2016).”
• Land Degradation and Challenges of Food Security (2019, background): “Land degradation is the combined result of numerous factors including unsustainable cultivation practices, over grazing, deforestation, soil erosion and climatic variations (Bai et al., 2008).”
• Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “Together soil nutrient depletion and erosion pose a serious concern since they contribute to declining agricultural productivity (Vlek 1993; IBSRAM 1994; Sanchez et al. 1997; Bekunda 1999; Deininger and Okidi 2001; Pender et al. 2001b; Bai et al. 2008), which in turn contributes to food and nutritio”
• Economics of land degradation in Eastern Africa (2014, methodology): “While utilizing long-term NDVI, they show that about 27% of the land is subject to degradation processes including, soil degradation, overgrazing, or deforestation.”
• Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Ethiopia (2016, methodology): “This approach was previously used by Evans and Geerken (2004), Bai et al. (2008), Hellden and Tottrup (2008), and Vlek et al. (2010). Using this technique, Bai et al. (2008) estimated that about 26 % of Ethiopian territory was experiencing land degradation processes between the periods 1981–2003; af”