This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/economics-land-degradation-and-improvement-global-assessment-sustainable
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ephraim-nkonya
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alisher-mirzabaev
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/joachim-von-braun
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/springer
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-degradation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/grasslands
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/livestock
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sustainable-development
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global