...characterized by insufficient moisture to support appreciable plant life, that is a climate of extreme aridity Desertification land degradation in arid, semiarid...sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climate variations and human activities (Convention to Combat Desertification) Desertification criteria...

...less ambiguous. The United Nations has since modified its definition of desertification as follows: "Land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climate variations and human activities" (Warren, 1996). That definition still does not either clarify...

...es/se/~edesert/desertmi.html#dm. (known as the Convention). According to the Convention, desertification was defined as "land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry, subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climactic variations and human activities."38 The definition was adopted by the United Nations Environment...

...(UNEP, 1993; Cardy, 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.' This became the basis of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), which eame...

...sometimes referred to as a depression. Desert An ecosystem with less than 100 mm of precipitation per year. Desertification Land degradation in arid, semi-arid...including climatic variations and human activities. Diurnal temperature range The difference between the maximum and minimum temperature during a day....

...measures to address climate change. Desert: An ecosystem with less than 100 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...

...environmental degradation in and around arid lands. More specifically, the CCD defines desertification as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities."' These arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas - covering 40 percent of the world's land surface - are...

...Desertification is defined formally by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid...including climatic variations and human activities" (UNEP l994). Eswaran et al. (200l) made an empirical assessment of land that is vulnerable to desertification,...

...ultimately to desert-like conditions." The working definition has since been refined to imply "the land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry subhumid...including climatic variations and human activities" (UNEP, 1990; 1992; UNCED, 1992). Desertification may refer to a process or the ultimate stage of land...

...desertification, which is a particularly serious form of soil degradation. It is defined by Agenda 21 as it belie activities',371 and encompasses soil degradation and associated changes in vegetation in arid and semi-arid...