Sentence examples for on desertification from inspiring English sources

He decided to focus on desertification, which is both a symptom and an intensifier of climate change.

In 1977, at the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) in Nairobi, Kenya, representatives and delegates first contemplated the worldwide effects of desertification.

The key to determining the project's success, and that of similar projects in these highlands, will be if it can produce enough to sustain families during the bad years, said James F. Reynolds, an expert on desertification at Duke University who visited Cedicam last month.

To identify the most effective criteria and indicators on desertification hazard, we applied CART (classification and regression tree) analysis.

Choosing and providing the indicators were according to the available information and maximum influence on desertification process in the region.

This was similar with the result found by Badreldin and Goossens (2015) who studied for monitoring mitigation strategies effects on desertification change in an arid environment.

On the basis of the modelling results, a new hypothesis for the on-going desertification process in the south-western United States is proposed.

He fretted about the effects of desertification on migration patterns by the year 2050.

Although, water erosion index have less impact on the hazard of desertification (7 land units).

Using the Hunshandake Sandy Land of eastern Inner Mongolia, a former dormant dunes and wetlands environment, we monitored the variation of the desertified land and the wetlands in order to assess the climatic and human impacts on the processes of desertification.

Herders' indigenous knowledge has potential for promoting local participation in the implementation of the global environmental conventions such as the UN Convention on Combating Desertification and Convention on Biological Diversity (Oba et al. 2008a).