Land Degradation and Its Conservation Measures for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil-Sediment-Water Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 3017
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soils, exposure and helth; carbon sequestration
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soils; water; exposure and health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land degradation usually indicates that the value of the biophysical environment is affected by the combination of human-induced process on the land and further affects the components of soil and the decline in land quality. Since the 20th century, it has been one of the most important global issues and has been put on the international agenda for the 21st century because of its close connection with food security. Land degradation adversely affects climate change and people’s livelihood. It is estimated that 1.5 billion people worldwide depend on degraded land for their livelihood. It is also evident that the people living on these degraded lands fully depend on natural resources for subsistence, food security, and income. However, the degradation of land has reduced these people’s productivity and has increased the working capacity required to fulfill their need.
The Special Issue aims to understand the major land degradation issues affecting terrestrial productivity and increasing CO2 emission under rising regional and/or global temperature. It includes possible measures that have been used to manage the impact of degradation on the rehabilitation of the land, the consequences of degradation with respect to the improvement in the productivity of the land, and the increase in the land’s carbon sink potential. Land management measures would help to understand specifically how carbon sinks are changing and what should be done to strengthen carbon sinks. This knowledge will help us achieve nature-based solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals. All these activities will also help us to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem-related services.
This journal explores the merits and demerits of the soils that are reducing the productivity of the land in all respects. As land degradation increases soil loss through erosion, runoff, reduce soil fertility, increasing emissions, and land degradation measurements, this issue will helps to reduce soil nutrients, enhance soil productivity and carbon sequestration, and overall enrich their productivity for the economy in future generations.
Land has published articles related to land use, land degradation, land rehabilitation, soil health, soil reclamation, biodiversity, and sustainable development of land through various management practices. Thus, the present topic of this Special Issue is related to issues of land degradation and its rehabilitation, which fit well with the themes of the journal.
Dr. Munesh Kumar
Dr. Marina Cabral Pinto
Prof. Dr. Tarun Kumar Thakur
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land degradation
- terrestrial ecosystem
- carbon dynamics
- land rehabilitation
- carbon sequestration
- soil nutrients status
- soil formation
- pollutants
- climate change
