Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes and Control by Jianye Li, Xingyi Zhang, Weida Gao, Wei Hu, Qiang Chen ISBN 9783725838486, 9783725838479, 3725838488, 372583847X instant download

Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes and Control by Jianye Li, Xingyi Zhang, Weida Gao, Wei Hu, Qiang Chen ISBN 9783725838486, 9783725838479, 3725838488, 372583847X instant download

Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges that human society is currently facing. All these physical and ecological attributes of land systems are constantly eroded by the multitude of land degradation pathways/processes that occur on various spatial scales throughout the world. 
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As an interdisciplinary and complex issue, land degradation is currently caused by 17 land degradation pathways (aridity, biological invasions, coastal erosion, land erosion by water, land erosion by wind, land pollution, land subsidence, landslides, permafrost thawing, salinization, soil acidification, soil biodiversity loss, soil compaction, soil organic carbon loss, soil sealing, vegetation degradation, and water logging). However, recent progress in land degradation processes, control, and restoration are short of large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional studies.
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The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights into large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional studies on land degradation in relation to different degradation pathways. New findings and progress in relating to land degradation and control, as well as land restoration.