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| Article Title | Towards sustainable land management in the drylands: scientific connections in monitoring and assessing dryland Degradation, climate change and biodiversity | | Author | A. L. Cowie, T. D. Penman, L. Gorissen, M. D. Winslow, J. Lehmann, T. D. Tyrrell, S. Twomlow, Andreas Wilkes, R. Lal, J.W. Jones, A. Paulsch, K. Kellner and M. Akhtar-Schuster | | Year | 2011 | | Journal Title | Land Degradation and Development | | Institution | John Wiley & Sons | | Volume | 22 | | Pages | 248–260 | | Call Number | JA0443-12 | | Keywords | resilience; sustainable land management; desertification; land degradation; climate change; biodiversity |
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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. |
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GRP 4: Reducing risks to land health and targeting agroforestry interventions to enhance land productivity and food availability
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