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<big>'''Desertification and Climate Change'''</big> | |||
''“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert.”'' | |||
:http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change | |||
:[https://cals.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln49/eriksen-part1.html Linkages between climate change and desertification in East Africa] | |||
::'''''Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents one of the greatest environmental challenges of our times...''''' | |||
:http://www.unccd.int/Lists/SiteDocumentLibrary/Publications/Desertificationandclimatechange.pdf | |||
''Desertification is associated with biodiversity loss and contributes to global climate change through loss of carbon sequestration capacity and an increase in land-surface albedo.'' | |||
:http://berc.berkeley.edu/desertification-the-forgotten-side-of-climate-change/ | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:41, 5 March 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_to_Combat_Desertification
Desertification and Climate Change
“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert.”
- Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents one of the greatest environmental challenges of our times...
Desertification is associated with biodiversity loss and contributes to global climate change through loss of carbon sequestration capacity and an increase in land-surface albedo.
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