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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… change. It leads to alteration of surface properties of an ecosystem (e.g. albedo, roughness length) and changes the … level (for example, increased precipitation in currently arid areas such as the Sahel) may give rise to potentially … drylands are divided into dry subhumid, semiarid, arid and hyperarid areas. Drylands host a unique array of …
World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 2: Five wetlands that help us cope with extreme weather events
… into the ocean, an inland delta is formed. In extremely arid areas, these seasonal flows are a strong natural … change. Yangtze River: ‘soft’ flood control with a wetland ecosystem Prone to monsoon flooding, the Yangtze River basin …