GC041
How to Achieve Global Land Degradation Neutrality: Monitoring, Mechanisms, Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Desertification
Session ID#: 78035
Session Description:
Desertification is a global issue, with serious implications worldwide for biodiversity, eco-safety, poverty eradication, socio-economic stability and sustainable development. The increased frequency and severity of droughts resulting from projected climate change is likely to further exacerbate desertification. Combating desertification is necessary to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), can play a vital role in securing biodiversity and maintaining crucial ecosystem services, while ensuring prosperity and well-being of more than 1.3 billion people. Understanding the current situation, dynamics, processes, mechanisms and mitigation strategies of desertification is a prerequisite for successful desertification control from local to global scales. This session welcomes diverse contributions that (1) map the situation and dynamics of desertification in the last few decades; (2) analyze the driving forces and mechanisms of desertification; (3) assess the effects of desertification on structure, functions and services of ecosystem, water and food security, climate change; and (4) share mitigation strategies to combat desertification.
Index Terms:
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1809 Desertification [HYDROLOGY]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Tao Wang, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China
Conveners: Atsushi Tsunekawa, Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, Caroline King, Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom and Jian Guo, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China
Primary Liaison: Jian Guo, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China
Eco-efficiency evaluation of oasis agriculture in arid region: A case study based on LCA+DEA method of seed maize production in Northwest China (527082)
Fanglei Zhong1, Daiwei Jiang1, Aijun Guo1, Asmat Ullah2, Xiao Yang3, Qingping Cheng4, Yongnian Zhang1 and Xiaojiang Ding1, (1)Lanzhou University, School of Economics, Lanzhou, China, (2)King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Bangkok, Thailand, (3)Lanzhou Municipal Sub-branch, the People's Bank of China, Lanzhou, China, (4)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Lanzhou, China
Overview of global SLM: A review on its distribution, successes and failures and its implications towards achieving a LDN world (530093)
Nigussie Haregeweyn, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Mitsuru Tsubo, Ayele Almaw Fenta, Kindiye Ebabu Gelaw, Birhanu Kebede, Mulatu Liyew Berihun and Mesenbet Yibeltal, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
Runoff, soil loss, and soil properties as influenced by land use and management practices: Case study from the Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia (531003)
Kindiye Ebabu Gelaw1, Atsushi Tsunekawa1, Nigussie Haregeweyn1, Enyew Adgo2, Derege Tsegaye Meshesha2, Dagnachew Aklog2, Tsugiyuki Masunaga3, Mitsuru Tsubo1, Dagnenet Sultan2, Ayele Almaw Fenta1 and Mesenbet Yibeltal1, (1)Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, (2)Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (3)Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
Hydrological responses to changes in land use/land cover and climate in contrasting agro-ecological settings of the Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia (533490)
Mulatu Liyew Berihun1, Atsushi Tsunekawa1, Nigussie Haregeweyn1, Derege Tsegaye Meshesha2, Enyew Adgo2, Mitsuru Tsubo1, Tsugiyuki Masunaga3, Ayele Almaw Fenta1, Dagnenet Sultan2, Mesenbet Yibeltal1 and Kindiye Ebabu Gelaw1, (1)Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, (2)Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (3)Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
Causes and impacts of severe Aeolian desertification at the early 21st century in the middle Inner Mongolia, northern China (538326)
Shulin Liu1, Wenping Kang2 and Tao Wang Sr2, (1)Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Systematic and Continuous Monitoring Initiated on Mustaw Glacier, Sawir Mountains (544046)
Huilin LI1, Zhongqin Li1, Feiteng Wang1 and Xiaoni You2, (1)NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Tianshui Normal University, Tianshui, China
Identifying characterization of sand dust storm and environmental conditions in Mid-Latitude Region (568546)
Eunbeen Park1, Cholho Song2, Jiwon Kim2, Hyun-Woo Jo2, Chul-Hee Lim3 and Sujong Lee2, (1)Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Korea University, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Seoul, South Korea
A Study on identifying potential area for establishing vegetation in Aral Sea using remote sensed data (568619)
Jiwon Kim1, Cholho Song1, Sujong Lee1, Eunbeen Park2, Hangnan Yu1, Hyun-Woo Jo1, Sungeun Cha1, Jiae An3, Asia Khamzina4, Yowhan Son3 and Woo-Kyun Lee1, (1)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Analyzing long-term effect of gully erosion on land degradation in Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia (570387)
Mesenbet Yibeltal1, Atsushi Tsunekawa1, Nigussie Haregeweyn1, Enyew Adgo2, Derege Tsegaye Meshesha2, Tsugiyuki Masunaga3, Mitsuru Tsubo1, Kindiye Ebabu Gelaw1, Ayele Almaw Fenta1 and Mulatu Liyew Berihun1, (1)Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, (2)Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (3)Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
A New Application of Random Forest Algorithm to Estimate Coverage of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crusts in Semi-Arid Mu Us Sandy Land, China (494743)
Xiang Chen1,2, Tao Wang Sr3, Shulin Liu2, Fei Peng2,4 and Atsushi Tsunekawa5, (1)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (4)International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, (5)Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
Soil respiration can only explain the soil carbon loss before the moderate level with alpine grassland degradation (497912)
Fei Peng, International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan, Chimin Lai, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resource, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Chengyang Li, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Lanzhou, China, Xian Xue, Lanzhou, China, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan and Tao Wang Sr, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Long-term remote sensing monitoring reveals the level-by-level transformation pattern among aeolian desertified lands in the semiarid desert region, China (504390)
Jian Guo, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Desert and Desertification, Lanzhou, China and Xiang Song, NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Evaluation of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China (504745)
Qingping Cheng, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Lanzhou, China, Xiaoan Zuo, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China and Fanglei Zhong, Lanzhou University, School of Economics, Lanzhou, China
Sub-cloud evaporation effect on precipitation isotopes in China during recent decades (511536)
Shengjie Wang1, Rong Jiao1, Mingjun Zhang1, Jagoda Crawford2, Cath E Hughes2 and Feiteng Wang3, (1)Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, (2)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia, (3)NIEER/Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
