...defined by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Is land degradation In arid, semi-arid a-td dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors,...including climatic variations and human activities. Desertification is more likely to become irreversible If the environment becomes drier and the soil...

...1993; Darkoh 1995; UNEP 1993) as follows: Desertification means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. In other official publications, however, it was still insisted that desertification (or dryland degradation)...

...defined, by international agreement in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities" (UN CCD, 1994). These areas cover 40% of the land surface of the globe and are the home of more than...

...scope of desertification is broad, as can be seen from the Article 1 of the CCD, which defmes it as: Land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities. Desertification includes environmental impacts such as soil erosion, reduced soil fernlity, loss of...

...Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which suggested the following revision of the def1nition: "Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid...including climatic variations and human activities." Those two latter def1nitions merit discussion. In admitting that land degradation represents a continuous...

...Convention to Combat Desertification (adopted in 1994 with expected implementation in 1997), follows: "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities." Stability and Desertification This degradation can be measured by the economic subsystem's resistance...

...to Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit which met in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, desertification is defined as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities." This definition has also been adopted by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (Article 1 (a))...

...Desertification (CCD), signed and ratified by 105 countries, defines desertification in Article l(a) as land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid...various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.51 Desertification has recently been accepted by the international community as a local...

...Dritten Welt, Bd. 5, Hamburg 1982, S. 381. 37 . Vgl. Matthies: Kollektive Self-Reliance. 1982, S. 382. I8 ...land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid...various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.40 Anders ausgedrückt hängt Desertifikation nicht mit der - wissenschaftlich bis heute...

...specified action. Se also emissions tax. Desert An ecosystem with less than l00 mm precipitation per year. Desertification Land degradation in arid, semi-arid,...including climatic variations and human activities. Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction...