Solar energy is a key renewable source for decarbonization and the future sustainable
development of human society. However, the success of the worldwide governments in the …

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 …

Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems.
The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate change and human …

New challenges and policy developments after 2015 (among others, the Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) are opportunities for soil …

Due to extreme climatic conditions and unreasonable human activities, the Hexi Corridor is
facing a serious threat of desertification. Based on the soil quality index (SQI) …

Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect
land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of …

Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe,
the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative …

The environmentally sensitive area (ESA) methodology (originally proposed in the
framework of MEDALUS–Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use—a series of …

Abstract Changes in precipitation (P), evapotranspiration (ET) and, implicitly, in the climatic
water balance (CWB), are imminent effects of climate warming. However, changes in the …

Land degradation is considered to be a major environmental problem of the European
continent, especially in the Mediterranean region. This study aims to deliver new results in …