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 …

Land degradation has become one of the most critical environmental and socioeconomic
issues in the world, particularly in Central Asia. Moreover, the realization of Land …

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

The couple rapid urbanization and policy failure in controlling urban expansion was
sometimes associated to soil and land degradation phenomena in both developing and …

Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) has been introduced to vast areas of
semiarid sandy region of northern China to create plantations, and it plays an important role …

Desertification has been listed as the top of ten major problems affecting global
environmental changes, and represents one of the important reasons of semi-arid grassland …

Iran is mainly located in the arid and semiarid climate zone and seriously affected by
desertification. This is a severe environmental problem, which results in a persistent loss of …

Afforestation is among the most effective means of preventing and controlling desertification.
Silver poplar (Populus alba) is commonly planted tree species for afforestation of the Horqin …

In this paper, the climate and environmental datasets were processed by the scripts of
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and R to evaluate changes in climate parameters, vegetation …

Climate warming, agricultural intensity, and urban growth are main forces triggering land
degradation in advanced economies. Being active over different spatial and temporal …