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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Towards sustainable land management in the drylands: Scientific connections in monitoring and assessing dryland degradation, climate change and biodiversity
Land Degradation and Development, Volume 22, No. 2, Year 2011
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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. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Cowie, Annette Louise
Australia, Armidale
University of new England Australia
Penman, T. D.
Australia
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems
Gorissen, L.
Belgium, Mol
Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek
Winslow, Mark D.
India, Patancheru
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics
Lehmann, Johannes C.
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
Tyrrell, T. D.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Twomlow, Stephen J.
Kenya, Nairobi
United Nations Environment Programme
Wilkes, Andreas
Kenya, Nairobi
World Agroforestry Centre
Lal, Rattan A.
United States, Columbus
The Ohio State University
Jones, James W.
United States, Gainesville
University of Florida
Paulsch, A.
Germany, Leipzig
Helmholtz Zentrum Für Umweltforschung
Kellner, Klaus
South Africa, Potchefstroom
North-west University
Akhtar-Schuster, Mariam
Germany, Hamburg
Universität Hamburg
Statistics
Citations: 127
Authors: 13
Affiliations: 13
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ldr.1086
ISSN:
10853278
e-ISSN:
1099145X
Research Areas
Environmental
Health System And Policy