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DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104609
	Spatio-temporal assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in The Thar Desert India, to combat desertification under UNCCD framework
	Sharma, Laxmi Kant; Raj, Alok; Somawat, Kritika
通讯作者	Sharma, LK (corresponding author), Cent Univ Rajasthan, Sch Earth Sci, Dept Environm Sci, Bandarsindri 305817, Ajmer, India.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2021
卷号	194
英文摘要	Globally, desertification is a challenging issue today. As per United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), it has been altering the quality of life of several people across the world. The study deals with temporal monitoring and mapping land degradation and desertification over the Thar Desert, which occupies the northwestern part of Rajasthan, India, with arid climatic conditions. It is necessary to control desertification by taking a few safety steps to create an early warning system based on scientific facts and satellite and secondary data. The current study has focused on integrating different data (i.e., climate, vegetation, and socio-economic), primary and secondary, as per their availability at a spatial scale for evaluating Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA), prone to desertification. It also provides temporal observation of various ESA indicators to measure the intensity and severity of land degradation in desertification. The weightage of ESA indicators was assigned based on Analytical Hierarchical Processes (AHP) to quantifying the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI). Overall, current research can guide authorities in proceeding with appropriate measures for addressing the process of land degradation. It would help the concerned authorities to execute suitable actions for combating desertification as apprised in COP-14 meeting under UNCCD framework, lately held in New Delhi (India) in 2019.
英文关键词	Land degradation Thar desert Desertification Environmentally sensitive area (ESA) Geospatial techniques UNCCD
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000691565800001
WOS关键词	RAJASTHAN
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363749
作者单位	[Sharma, Laxmi Kant; Raj, Alok; Somawat, Kritika] Cent Univ Rajasthan, Sch Earth Sci, Dept Environm Sci, Bandarsindri 305817, Ajmer, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sharma, Laxmi Kant,Raj, Alok,Somawat, Kritika. Spatio-temporal assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in The Thar Desert India, to combat desertification under UNCCD framework[J],2021,194.
APA	Sharma, Laxmi Kant,Raj, Alok,&Somawat, Kritika.(2021).Spatio-temporal assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in The Thar Desert India, to combat desertification under UNCCD framework.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,194.
MLA	Sharma, Laxmi Kant,et al."Spatio-temporal assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in The Thar Desert India, to combat desertification under UNCCD framework".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 194(2021).