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Title: Towards sustainable land management in the drylands: Scientific connections in monitoring and assessing dryland degradation, climate change and biodiversity
Contributor(s): Cowie, Annette  (author); Penman, T D (author); Paulsch, A (author); Kellner, K (author); Akhtar-Schuster, M (author); Gorissen, L (author); Winslow, M D (author); Lehmann, J (author); Tyrell, T D (author); Twomlow, S (author); Wilkes, A (author); Lal, R (author); Jones, J W (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1086Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12138
Open Access Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7lgocrsOpen Access Link
Abstract: The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and its sister conventions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, all aim to halt or mitigate the deterioration of the ecological processes on which life depends. Sustainable land management (SLM) is fundamental to achieving the goals of all three Conventions. Changes in land management undertaken to address dryland degradation and desertification can simultaneously reduce net greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to conservation of biodiversity. Management to protect and enhance terrestrial carbon stocks, both in vegetation and soil, is of central importance to all three conventions. Protection of biodiversity conveys stability and resilience to agro-ecosystems and increases carbon storage potential of dryland systems. SLM improves livelihoods of communities dependent on the land. Despite these complementarities between the three environmental goals, tradeoffs often arise in their pursuit. The importance of human-environment interactions to the condition of land compels attention to adaptive management. In order to reconcile concerns and agendas at a higher strategic level, identification of synergies, conflicts, trade-offs, interconnections, feedbacks and spillover effects among multiple objectives, drivers, actions, policies and time horizons are crucial. Once these issues are transparent, coordinated action can be put into place across the three multilateral environmental agreements in the development of strategies and policy measures to support SLM.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Land Degradation and Development, 22(2), p. 248-260
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1099-145X
1085-3278
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050209 Natural Resource Management
050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
050302 Land Capability and Soil Degradation
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960604 Environmental Management Systems
829899 Environmentally Sustainable Plant Production not elsewhere classified
960910 Sparseland, Permanent Grassland and Arid Zone Land and Water Management
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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