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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… Ecosystems can act to buffer the processes of drought and desertification through shelterbelts, greenbelts, hedges and … agriculture 7.5 Over-harvesting of forest products 7.6 Desertification 7.7 Industrial logging/illegal logging 7.8 … in support of human well-being. Convention to Combat Desertification (1994) Relating specifically to drought, Part …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… risks from slow onset disasters such as drought and desertification. In an analysis of 132 case studies carried … or agrarian land uses are the key proximate causes of desertification. Ecosystem management practices such as … Mauritania to Nigeria. At the same time, soil erosion and desertification, which also threaten food security, continue …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… livelihoods in the Albany Thicket, South Africa Semi-Arid Desertification Uganda Mt Elgon Ecosystem Initiatives to … phenomena Soils Soil degradation, erosion and micro-desertification Agriculture Loss of productivity Fisheries … phenomenon, leading to droughts in coastal areas and micro-desertification due to the local ecosystem change (IMELS, …