Land for Balance: The Advanced Methods and Trends for Land Degradation
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 12887
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land degradation; soil; remote sensing; GIS
Interests: land use&cover; remote sensing; soil ecosystem
Interests: climate change; soil; precipitation; drought; GIS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land degradation is one of the main environmental and socioeconomic issues worldwide. It is a major threat to ecosystem functioning and services. Understanding global land degradation is essential to face challenges in accomplishing the purpose of Land for Balance. land degradation imposes a negative trend in land condition, triggered by direct and/or indirect human-induced practices. Therefore, assessment of land degradation sould cover the global status and trends in land degradation. This Special Issue will explore conceptual methods and models to assess and describe the complexity of land degradation.
Researchers, scholars and experts are welcome to share their research and findings in our Special Issue Land for Balance: The Advanced Methods and Trends for land degradation. The focuses of the proposed issue will include but not limited to:
- Geospatial methods for land degradation assessment;
- Human induced land degradation;
- Monitoring towards land degradation neutrality;
- Remote sensing for land degradation;
- Degraded land in mining and post-mining areas;
- Prevention and remediation of degraded soil;
- Vegetation and biodiversity as indices for land degradation;
- Soil pollutions and remediation;
- Climate change and land degradation;
- Socio-economic aspects in degraded land.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the proposed deadline 15.11.2022. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited.
Dr. Moncef Bouaziz
Dr. Osunmadewa Babatunde
Dr. Emna Medhioub
Dr. Hamouda Aichi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- land degradation
- ecosystem health
- vegetation/soil
- water
- land use /land cover
- remote sensing/GIS
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