Land degradation: Multiple environmental consequences and routes to neutrality

FAL Pacheco, LFS Fernandes, RFV Junior… - Current Opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Degradation is currently affecting 25% of Earth's land and 40% of Earth's agricultural land.
The environmental consequences of land degradation are vast, including amplified soil …

Anthropogenic modifications and river ecosystem services: a landscape perspective

A Ekka, S Pande, Y Jiang, P der Zaag - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The process of development has led to the modification of river landscapes. This has
created imbalances between ecological, economic, and socio-cultural uses of ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Attributing the hydrological impact of different land use types and their long-term dynamics through combining parsimonious hydrological modelling, alteration …

TG Gebremicael, YA Mohamed… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between hydrological processes and environmental
changes is important for improved water management. The Geba catchment in Ethiopia …

Population growth, land use and land cover transformations, and water quality nexus in the Upper Ganga River basin

AK Shukla, CSP Ojha, A Mijic… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
The Upper Ganga River basin is socioeconomically the most important river basin in India
and is highly stressed in terms of water resources due to uncontrolled land use and land …

Analysis of the impacts of land use land cover change on streamflow and surface water availability in Awash Basin, Ethiopia

H Maru, A Haileslassie, T Zeleke… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The current study analyzed the impact of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) change on
streamflow and surface water availability in the Akaki catchment of the Awash Basin …

Land use and land cover change, and analysis of its drivers in Ojoje watershed, Southern Ethiopia

M Mariye, L Jianhua, M Maryo - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
There have been incredible changes that have taken place in the land use pattern globally
over the last 50 years, which resulted from environmental degradation and climate change …

Assessing land degradation and quantifying its drivers in the Amudarya River delta

L Jiang, G Jiapaer, A Bao, Y Li, H Guo, G Zheng… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The shrinking of the Aral Sea is one of the most shocking environmental disasters in the
world. The Amudarya River delta (AD) is highly vulnerable to land degradation. In this …

Land degradation risk mapping using topographic, human-induced, and geo-environmental variables and machine learning algorithms, for the Pole-Doab watershed …

A Torabi Haghighi, H Darabi, Z Karimidastenaei… - Environmental Earth …, 2021 - Springer
Land degradation (LD) is a complex process affected by both anthropogenic and natural
driving variables, and its prevention has become an essential task globally. The aim of the …

[HTML][HTML] Forest fragmentation in a forest Biosphere Reserve: Implications for the sustainability of natural habitats and forest management policy in Ethiopia

W Mengist, T Soromessa, GL Feyisa - Resources, Environment and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest fragmentation is a landscape-level process that comprises forest loss and changes in
spatial patterns. Effective forest conservation programs thus require a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring Afromontane forest cover loss and the associated socio-ecological drivers in Kaffa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia

W Mengist, T Soromessa, GL Feyisa - Trees, Forests and People, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate and up-to-date information on spatial and temporal changes in land use and land
cover (LULC) is helpful in understanding the relationship between the environment and …