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DOI	10.1002/ldr.3436
	Desertification: Inappropriate images lead to inappropriate actions
	Prince, Stephen D.1; Podwojewski, Pascal 2
通讯作者	Prince, Stephen D.
来源期刊	LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN	1085-3278
EISSN	1099-145X
出版年	2020
卷号	31 期号:6 页码:677-682
英文摘要	Among policy institutions, researchers in other fields, and the public, there is an enduring misunderstanding of the nature of desertification. To a considerable extent, its meaning has been reduced to just two eye-catching images: sand dunes encroaching on productive land and habitations and bare, cracked soil surfaces. Yet neither of these is an indicator of desertification-sometimes called dryland degradation. Rather desertification results in a wide range of changes, including erosion, loss of biodiversity, decline in soil fertility, and reduced carbon storage. Surprisingly, it is the pictures themselves, not the scientific literature, that have fixed this erroneous concept in the minds of even some who work in the field of land degradation. The results of this confusion include inappropriate management efforts, mistaken premises in research, and ill-informed policies at local to global scales including misleading prognostications of institutions-even at the level of United Nations agencies.
英文关键词	cracked soil desertification dryland degradation sand dune encroachment UNCCD
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; France
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000491037200001
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Soil Science
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Agriculture
EI主题词	2019-10-20
来源机构	French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310320
作者单位	1.Univ Maryland, Dept Geog Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA; 2.Univ Paris Diderot, UPEC, INRA, CNRS,Ctr IRD France Nord,IRD,UMR IEES Paris,SU, F-93143 Paris, Bondy, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Prince, Stephen D.,Podwojewski, Pascal. Desertification: Inappropriate images lead to inappropriate actions[J]. French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development,2020,31(6):677-682.
APA	Prince, Stephen D.,&Podwojewski, Pascal.(2020).Desertification: Inappropriate images lead to inappropriate actions.LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT,31(6),677-682.
MLA	Prince, Stephen D.,et al."Desertification: Inappropriate images lead to inappropriate actions".LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT 31.6(2020):677-682.