Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation
A global challenge to sustainable development is land degradation, and to achieve land degradation neutrality, monitoring, mapping, and impact assessment of ongoing ecological restoration efforts is necessary. Here, we analyze the desertification process and role of restoration projects at a spatial...
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| author | Barjeece Bashir Chunxiang Cao Bo Xie Yiyu Chen Zhibin Huang Xiaojuan Lin Hafiza Nayab Gul Faisal Mumtaz Robert Shea Duerler Adeel Ahmad Talha Hassan |
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| description | A global challenge to sustainable development is land degradation, and to achieve land degradation neutrality, monitoring, mapping, and impact assessment of ongoing ecological restoration efforts is necessary. Here, we analyze the desertification process and role of restoration projects at a spatial and temporal scale in Mu Us Desert from 2001 to 2018. We used 17 years of data to (1) assess the vegetation trend including its significance and map land degradation based on Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 (2) address how vegetation activity has changed under the influence of restoration programs and climate change (3) estimate how successful are the positive human interventions to achieve Land degradation neutrality. Results showed an overall increasing vegetation trend (85.69% significant increasing) and a partial decreasing vegetation trend (1.33% significant decreasing) in Mu Us desert. Ecological restoration activities are found to be one of the key driving forces of vegetation restoration in the desert, however, limited impact of climatic factors on vegetation cover change was observed. Results revealed that 41.42% of total significant restoration is attributed to ecological restoration programs out of which 40.42% area has shown improvement in all three sub-indicators of land degradation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d846b41d849e4972b3b59dede066c83f2023-11-23T16:39:43ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072022-05-0113681810.3390/f13060818Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land DegradationBarjeece Bashir0Chunxiang Cao1Bo Xie2Yiyu Chen3Zhibin Huang4Xiaojuan Lin5Hafiza Nayab Gul6Faisal Mumtaz7Robert Shea Duerler8Adeel Ahmad9Talha Hassan10State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, ChinaSchool of Geographic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, ChinaA global challenge to sustainable development is land degradation, and to achieve land degradation neutrality, monitoring, mapping, and impact assessment of ongoing ecological restoration efforts is necessary. Here, we analyze the desertification process and role of restoration projects at a spatial and temporal scale in Mu Us Desert from 2001 to 2018. We used 17 years of data to (1) assess the vegetation trend including its significance and map land degradation based on Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 (2) address how vegetation activity has changed under the influence of restoration programs and climate change (3) estimate how successful are the positive human interventions to achieve Land degradation neutrality. Results showed an overall increasing vegetation trend (85.69% significant increasing) and a partial decreasing vegetation trend (1.33% significant decreasing) in Mu Us desert. Ecological restoration activities are found to be one of the key driving forces of vegetation restoration in the desert, however, limited impact of climatic factors on vegetation cover change was observed. Results revealed that 41.42% of total significant restoration is attributed to ecological restoration programs out of which 40.42% area has shown improvement in all three sub-indicators of land degradation.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/6/818land degradationvegetation trendecological restoration projectsclimatesustainable developmentNDVI |
| spellingShingle | Barjeece Bashir Chunxiang Cao Bo Xie Yiyu Chen Zhibin Huang Xiaojuan Lin Hafiza Nayab Gul Faisal Mumtaz Robert Shea Duerler Adeel Ahmad Talha Hassan Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation Forests land degradation vegetation trend ecological restoration projects climate sustainable development NDVI |
| title | Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation |
| title_full | Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation |
| title_fullStr | Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation |
| title_short | Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation |
| title_sort | unfolding the success of positive human interventions in combating land degradation |
| topic | land degradation vegetation trend ecological restoration projects climate sustainable development NDVI |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/6/818 |
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