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Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development

June 2007

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2,575 Citations

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In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent lessons about the functioning of dryland ecosystems and the livelihood systems of their human residents and introduce a new synthetic framework, the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP). The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.

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The Emergence of Land Change Science for Global Environmental Change and Sustainability

Article

January 2007

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1,142 Citations

Turner, B.L., II

E.F. Lambin

Anette Reenberg

... In 1993, two prominent international organizations, namely the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programmer (IGBP) and the International Human Dimensions Programmer (IHDP), introduced the LUCC scientific research program as a pivotal aspect of global change study [11,12]. Following LUCC, the inception of the Global Land Project (GLP) in 2005 underscored the significance of integrating and simulating the interconnected human-environment system, leading to LUCC gradually emerging as a "hotspot" [13][14][15][16][17][18]. In China, the rapid changes in land use driven by economic development have sparked increasing interest among scholars in understanding China's land use dynamics [19,20], its driving forces and mechanisms [21,22], as well as simulations of future dynamics [23][24][25]. ...
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Land-Use/Cover Change and Driving Forces in the Pan-Pearl River Basin during the Period 1985–2020