Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales
This paper suggests how the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) community can progressively make use of a flexible framework of analytical approaches that have been recently developed by scientific research. This allows a standardized but flexible use of indicator sets adapte...
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| author | Sommer S Zucca, Claudio Grainger A Cherlet, M. Zougmoré, Robert B. Sokona Y Hill J Della Peruta R Roehrig J Wang G |
| author_browse | Cherlet, M. Della Peruta R Grainger A Hill J Roehrig J Sokona Y Sommer S Wang G Zougmoré, Robert B. Zucca, Claudio |
| author_facet | Sommer S Zucca, Claudio Grainger A Cherlet, M. Zougmoré, Robert B. Sokona Y Hill J Della Peruta R Roehrig J Wang G |
| author_sort | Sommer S |
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| description | This paper suggests how the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) community can progressively make use of a flexible framework of analytical approaches that have been recently developed by scientific research. This allows a standardized but flexible use of indicator sets adapted to specific objectives or desertification issues relevant for implementing the Convention. Science has made progress in understanding major issues and proximate causes of dryland degradation such that indicator sets can be accordingly selected from the wealth of existing and documented indicator systems. The selection and combination should be guided according to transparent criteria given by existing indicator frameworks adapted to desertification conceptual frameworks such as the Dryland Development Paradigm and can act as a pragmatic entry point for selecting area- and theme-specific sets of indicators from existing databases. Working on different dryland sub-types through a meaningful stratification is proposed to delimit and characterize affected areas beyond the national level. Such stratification could be achieved by combining existing land use information with additional biophysical and socio-economic data sets, allowing indicator-based monitoring and assessment to be embedded in a framework of specific dryland degradation issues and their impacts on key ecosystem services. |
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| spelling | CGSpace420852024-08-27T10:36:38Z Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales Sommer S Zucca, Claudio Grainger A Cherlet, M. Zougmoré, Robert B. Sokona Y Hill J Della Peruta R Roehrig J Wang G agriculture climate desertification This paper suggests how the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) community can progressively make use of a flexible framework of analytical approaches that have been recently developed by scientific research. This allows a standardized but flexible use of indicator sets adapted to specific objectives or desertification issues relevant for implementing the Convention. Science has made progress in understanding major issues and proximate causes of dryland degradation such that indicator sets can be accordingly selected from the wealth of existing and documented indicator systems. The selection and combination should be guided according to transparent criteria given by existing indicator frameworks adapted to desertification conceptual frameworks such as the Dryland Development Paradigm and can act as a pragmatic entry point for selecting area- and theme-specific sets of indicators from existing databases. Working on different dryland sub-types through a meaningful stratification is proposed to delimit and characterize affected areas beyond the national level. Such stratification could be achieved by combining existing land use information with additional biophysical and socio-economic data sets, allowing indicator-based monitoring and assessment to be embedded in a framework of specific dryland degradation issues and their impacts on key ecosystem services. 2011-03 2014-08-15T12:13:23Z 2014-08-15T12:13:23Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42085 en Limited Access Wiley Sommer S, Zucca C, Grainger A, Cherlet M, Zougmore R, Sokona Y, Hill J, Della Peruta R, Roehrig J, Wang G. 2011. Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales. Land Degradation & Development 22(2):184 197. |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate desertification Sommer S Zucca, Claudio Grainger A Cherlet, M. Zougmoré, Robert B. Sokona Y Hill J Della Peruta R Roehrig J Wang G Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title | Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title_full | Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title_fullStr | Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title_full_unstemmed | Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title_short | Application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| title_sort | application of indicator systems for monitoring and assessment of desertification from national to global scales |
| topic | agriculture climate desertification |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42085 |
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