Understanding spatial patterns of environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) to desertification is
essential for sustainable land use in the drylands. This work is a novel trial for integrating the …

In this study, using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic Information System
(GIS), the sensitivity to the occurrence of different types of droughts including meteorological …

A study of the extended desertification due to anthropogenic causes under climate change
(CC) associated with its impact is presented here. Desertification, the main environmental …

Mapping and monitoring of the complex process of desertification based on ground data in
broad arid and semiarid areas faces basic limitations. Therefore, the purpose of the present …

Vulnerabilities of different regions to drought are under the influence of different factors such
as the land use, accessibility to the surface and subsurface water resources, etc. In this …

Desertification is one of the primary environmental problems that negatively affect
agricultural production leading to poverty, hunger, and economic instability in a country like …

The optimum use and appropriate management of renewable resources, with dynamic
characteristics, needs to evaluate and classify the ecological capability of environment and …

ABSTRACT The United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to
address societal, economic and environmental sustainability issues. The efficiency of SDGs …

Land degradation threatens the sustainability of human societies due to the loss of
resources, services, and goods. To assess land degradation, models are useful and fruitful …

Agricultural suitability assessment is a process that requires spatial data, geo-information
tools, and the expertise of a computer scientist to analyze the information. The main …