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DOI	10.1155/2020/7563928
	SAT: A Software for Assessing the Risk of Desertification in Spain
	Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime; Ibanez, Javier; Alcala, Francisco J.; Martinez, Silvio
通讯作者	Martinez-Valderrama, J
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING
ISSN	1058-9244
EISSN	1875-919X
出版年	2020
卷号	2020
英文摘要	Desertification is a major global environmental issue exacerbated by climate change. Strategies to combat desertification include prevention which seeks to reverse the process before the system reaches the stable desertified state. One of these initiatives is to implement early warning tools. This paper presents SAT (the Spanish acronym for Early Warning System), a decision support system (DSS), for assessing the risk of desertification in Spain, where 20% of the land has already been desertified and 1% is in active degradation. SATrelies on three versions of a Generic Desertification Model (GDM) that integrates economics and ecology under the predator-prey paradigm. The models have been programmed using Vensim, a type of software used to build and simulate System Dynamics (SD) models. Through Visual Basic programming, these models are operated from the Excel environment. In addition to the basic simulation exercises, specially designed tools have been coupled to assess the risk of desertification and determine the ranking of the most influential factors of the process. The users targeted by SAT are government land-use planners as well as desertification experts. SAT tool is implemented for five case studies, each one of them representing a desertification syndrome identified in Spain. Given the general nature of the tool and the fact that all United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signatory countries are committed to developing their National Plans to Combat Desertification (NPCD), SAT could be exported to regions threatened by desertification and expanded to cover more case studies.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000552764200003
WOS关键词	HYDROLOGICAL-ECONOMIC MODEL ; DATA DRYLANDS APPLICATION ; DECISION-SUPPORT-SYSTEMS ; LAND-USE CHANGE ; AMTOUDI OASIS ; STABILITY ; DEGRADATION ; OVEREXPLOITATION ; SUSTAINABILITY ; METHODOLOGY
WOS类目	Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325234
作者单位	[Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime] Univ Alicante, Inst Multidisciplinar Estudio Medio Ramon Margale, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig S-N, Alicante 03690, Spain; [Ibanez, Javier] Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Econ Agr Estadist & Gest Empresas, Madrid 28040, Spain; [Alcala, Francisco J.] Inst Geol & Minero Espana IGME, Madrid 28003, Spain; [Alcala, Francisco J.] Univ Autonoma Chile, Fac Ingn, Inst Ciencias Quim Aplicadas, Santiago 7500138, Chile; [Martinez, Silvio] CSIC, Ctr Ciencias Humanas & Sociales, Madrid 28037, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime,Ibanez, Javier,Alcala, Francisco J.,et al. SAT: A Software for Assessing the Risk of Desertification in Spain[J],2020,2020.
APA	Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime,Ibanez, Javier,Alcala, Francisco J.,&Martinez, Silvio.(2020).SAT: A Software for Assessing the Risk of Desertification in Spain.SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING,2020.
MLA	Martinez-Valderrama, Jaime,et al."SAT: A Software for Assessing the Risk of Desertification in Spain".SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING 2020(2020).