Land degradation

Component is implemented in:

GLOBIO model (version GLOBIO 3.0) Components: Aquatic biodiversity Ecosystem services Land degradation Terrestrial biodiversity

Related IMAGE components

Atmospheric composition and climate Land cover and land use

Projects/Applications

Global Land Outlook 1 Global Land Outlook 2 Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project

Models/Databases

GlobCover database HWSD database S-World database WISE database WorldClim database

Key publications

Hootsmans et al., 2001 Stoorvogel et al., 2017 Stoorvogel, 2014 Van Beek, 2012

References

Bindraban et al., 2012 FAO, 2011a Nkonya et al., 2011 Rozanov et al., 1990 UNCCD, 2012 Wischmeier and Smith, 1978

Flowchart Land degradation. See also the Input/Output Table on the introduction page.

Key policy issues

• In what parts of the world have human-induced changes in land and soil conditions occurred?
• What are the future risks of soil degradation?
• To what extent are ecosystem functions lost by soil degradation, adding to local and global concerns about food security, biodiversity loss and climate change?

Introduction