Restoring Degraded Lands
(2021) In Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46. p.569-599- Abstract
Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge to human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, and undermining a wide range of ecosystem services beyond food supply and water and climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several degradation processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultural and forest land management, as well as land set aside for conservation wherever possible, will generate co-benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation and morebroadly for human and societal well-being and the economy. This review highlights the magnitude of the degradation problem and some of the key... (More)
Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge to human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, and undermining a wide range of ecosystem services beyond food supply and water and climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several degradation processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultural and forest land management, as well as land set aside for conservation wherever possible, will generate co-benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation and morebroadly for human and societal well-being and the economy. This review highlights the magnitude of the degradation problem and some of the key challenges for ecological restoration. There are biophysical as well as societal limits to restoration. Better integrating policies to jointly address poverty, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions and removals is fundamental to reducing many existing barriers and contributing to climate-resilient sustainable development.
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- Arneth, Almut LU ; Olsson, Lennart LU ; Cowie, Annette ; Erb, Karl Heinz ; Hurlbert, Margot ; Kurz, Werner A. ; Mirzabaev, Alisher and Rounsevell, Mark D.A.
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- biodiversity, carbon cycle, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, global environmental change
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- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
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- 46
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- 31 pages
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- Annual Reviews
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- scopus:85111352290
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- 1543-5938
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- 10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-054809
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- English
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abstract = {{<p>Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge to human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, and undermining a wide range of ecosystem services beyond food supply and water and climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several degradation processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultural and forest land management, as well as land set aside for conservation wherever possible, will generate co-benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation and morebroadly for human and societal well-being and the economy. This review highlights the magnitude of the degradation problem and some of the key challenges for ecological restoration. There are biophysical as well as societal limits to restoration. Better integrating policies to jointly address poverty, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions and removals is fundamental to reducing many existing barriers and contributing to climate-resilient sustainable development.</p>}},
author = {{Arneth, Almut and Olsson, Lennart and Cowie, Annette and Erb, Karl Heinz and Hurlbert, Margot and Kurz, Werner A. and Mirzabaev, Alisher and Rounsevell, Mark D.A.}},
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keywords = {{biodiversity; carbon cycle; climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; global environmental change}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{569--599}},
publisher = {{Annual Reviews}},
series = {{Annual Review of Environment and Resources}},
title = {{Restoring Degraded Lands}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-054809}},
doi = {{10.1146/annurev-environ-012320-054809}},
volume = {{46}},
year = {{2021}},
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