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| DOI | 10.1016/j.catena.2019.104413 |
| A desertification risk assessment decision support tool (DRAST) | |
| Karavitis, Christos A.1; Tsesmelis, Demetrios E.1; Oikonomou, Panagiotis D.2; Kairis, Orestis1; Kosmas, Constantinos1; Fassouli, Vassilia1; Ritsema, Coen3; Hessel, Rudi4; Jetten, Victor5; Moustakas, Nikolaos1; Todorovic, Branislav1; Skondras, Nikolaos A.1; Vasilakou, Constantina G.1; Alexandris, Stavros1; Kolokytha, Elpida6; Stamatakos, Demetrios, V1; Stricevic, Ruzica7; Chatzigeorgiadis, Emmanuel8; Brandt, Jane9; Geeson, Nicky9; Quaranta, Giovanni9 | |
| 通讯作者 | Karavitis, Christos A. |
| 来源期刊 | CATENA
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| ISSN | 0341-8162 |
| EISSN | 1872-6887 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 卷号 | 187 |
| 英文摘要 | Desertification constantly and diachronically manifested itself as one of the most critical environmental issues to be confronted and mitigated by society. This work presents the development of a land desertification risk Expert System (ES) for assessing the application of different land management practices by utilizing indicators through a desertification risk index (DRI). The DRI was developed by a desertification risk assessment framework generated in seventeen study sites worldwide. This assessment was performed through a methodological process incorporating indicators suited to a plethora of physical, social and economic characteristics. Then, the Desertification Risk Assessment Support Tool (DRAST) was created using the indicators' methodology in an effort to efficiently handle complexity and variability in soil and water resources management. To demonstrate DRAST's applicability, an independent data base of indicators was used, and the tool was employed in all the seventeen study sites. Five indicative sites, experiencing different desertification processes, are selected as key representatives of the methodological process implementation. Overall, the assessment depicted that DRAST performs appropriately in demarcating existing desertification risk as well as in portraying how the desertification risk changes after the application of pertinent mitigation actions. Thus, the current approach may lead towards a standardized procedure, which is using the advantages of information technology to assess the effectiveness of various land management practices and facilitate stakeholders and decision-makers to produce and implement timely and appropriate responses to combat desertification. |
| 英文关键词 | Desertification risk Desertification assessment Desertification indicators Decision support systems Expert systems Web-based systems Land and water resources management Strategies to combat desertification |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | Greece ; USA ; Netherlands ; Serbia ; Italy |
| 收录类别 | SCI-E |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000514020400024 |
| WOS关键词 | STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX ; FUZZY EXPERT-SYSTEM ; VULNERABILITY INDEX ; MANAGEMENT ; SENSITIVITY ; INFORMATION ; INDICATORS ; VEGETATION ; BASIN |
| WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Soil Science ; Water Resources |
| WOS研究方向 | Geology ; Agriculture ; Water Resources |
| 来源机构 | Colorado State University |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/314233 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Agr Univ Athens, Dept Nat Resources Dev & Agr Engn, Athens 11855, Greece; 2.Colorado State Univ, Colorado Water Inst, Campus Delivery 1033, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA; 3.Wageningen Univ & Res, Soil Phys & Land Management Grp, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, NL-6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands; 4.Wageningen Univ & Res, Alterra, Soil Phys & Land Use, POB 47, NL-6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands; 5.Univ Twente, Fac Geoinformat Sci & Earth Observat ITC, POB 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands; 6.Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Dept Civil Engn, Div Hydraul & Environm Engn, Univ Campus, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece; 7.Univ Belgrade, Fac Agr, Nemanjina 6, Zemun 11080, Serbia; 8.Agr Univ Athens, Athens 11855, Greece; 9.Osservatorio Mediterraneo Studio Soluz Problemi E, Via Fossa Lupo 1, I-84029 Salerno, Italy |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karavitis, Christos A.,Tsesmelis, Demetrios E.,Oikonomou, Panagiotis D.,et al. A desertification risk assessment decision support tool (DRAST)[J]. Colorado State University,2020,187. |
| APA | Karavitis, Christos A..,Tsesmelis, Demetrios E..,Oikonomou, Panagiotis D..,Kairis, Orestis.,Kosmas, Constantinos.,...&Quaranta, Giovanni.(2020).A desertification risk assessment decision support tool (DRAST).CATENA,187. |
| MLA | Karavitis, Christos A.,et al."A desertification risk assessment decision support tool (DRAST)".CATENA 187(2020). |
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