An exploratory analysis of land abandonment drivers in areas prone to desertification

Tezcan, Levent; Vente, Joris de; Zagal, Erick; Zeyliger, Anatoly; Salvati, Luca; Kosmas, Costas; Kairis, Orestis; Karavitis, Christos A.; Açıkalın, Sanem; Alcalá, M.; Alfama, Patricia; Atlhopheng, Julius; Barrera, Jr. William M.; Belgacem, Azaiez Ouled; Solé‐Benet, Albert; Brito, Joás da Silva; Chaker, Miloud; Chanda, Raban; Darkoh, M.B.K.; Ermolaeva, Olga; Fassouli, V.; Fernandez, Fernando A. S.; Gökçeoğlu, Candan; González, D.; Güngör, Hasan; Hessel, Rudi; Khatteli, Houcine; Хитров, Н. Б.; Kounalaki, A.; Laouina, Abdellah; Magole, Lapologang; Medina, L.; Mendoza, Manuel E.; Mulale, K.; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Ouessar, Mohamed; Ovalle, Carlos; Pérez, Claudio; Perkins, J.; Pozo, Alejandro del; Prat, Christian; Ramos, Ana Paula Marques; Ramos, Jesús; Riquelme, Jorge; Ritsema, C.J.; Romanenkov, Vladimir; Sebego, Reuben; Sghaïer, Mongi; Silva, N.; Sizemskaya, M. L.; Sönmez, Hulki Meltem; Taâmallah, Houcine

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2014.02.006

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“…The first composite indices were composed of five risk factors including the current presence and extent of salinity, soil drainage, aridity, topography and land use, later it was modified and updated in the context of assessing soil quality and its impact on agricultural sustainability in the Canadian Prairies [25]. For example, the nine major relevant indicators for soil salinization were proposed during the study about features of soil salinity, land degradation and its global causes [21,26,27]. The eleven socio-industrial parameters were determined during the study of soil salinization in the Yellow River Delta [28].…”

Section: Composite Risk Index For Irrigation Salinity Hazardmentioning

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Irrigation Salinity Risk Assessment and Mapping in Arid Oasis, Northwest China

Seydehmet

Abliz

et al. 2018

Water

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Irrigation salinity is a common environmental threat for sustainable development in the Keriya Oasis, arid Northwest China. It is mainly caused by unreasonable land management and excessive irrigation. The aim of this study was to assess and map the salinity risk distribution by developing a composite risk index (CRI) for seventeen risk parameters from traditional and scientific fields, based on maximizing deviation method and analytic hierarchy process, the grey relational analysis and the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) sustainability framework. The results demonstrated that the northern part of the Shewol and Yeghebagh village has a very high salinity risk, which might be caused by flat and low terrain, high subsoil total soluble salt, high groundwater salinity and shallow groundwater depth. In contrast, the southern part of the Oasis has a low risk of salinity because of high elevation, proper drainage conditions and a suitable groundwater table. This achievement has shown that southern parts of the Oasis are suitable for irrigation agriculture; for the northern area, there is no economically feasible solution but other areas at higher risk can be restored by artificial measures. Therefore, this study provides policy makers with baseline data for restoring the soil salinity within the Oasis.

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Section: Composite Risk Index For Irrigation Salinity Hazardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Irrigation Salinity Risk Assessment and Mapping in Arid Oasis, Northwest China

Seydehmet

Abliz

et al. 2018

Water

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“…In this regard, a spatially explicit land management program calls into question a set of environmental and socioeconomic factors and the related indicators informing a sustainable land management strategy should account for complex phenomena and contexts. For instance, land abandonment depending on a polarized economic development in dynamic urban areas and marginal rural districts, has led to both soil deterioration or improvement depending on pristine soil type and climate conditions and the local background context [40][41][42]. In this regard, the adoption of measures promoting soil conservation was demonstrated to mitigate the environmental impact of land mismanagement [43], at least where the environmental and socioeconomic context is responsive to such measures [44].…”

Section: Land Degradation In Mediterranean Europe: the Environmentallmentioning

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Desertification Risk and Rural Development in Southern Europe: Permanent Assessment and Implications for Sustainable Land Management and Mitigation Policies

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Egidi

Vinci³

et al. 2019

Land

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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines 'land degradation' as a reduction or loss of the biological and economic productivity resulting from land-use mismanagement, or a combination of processes, such as soil erosion, deterioration of soil properties, and loss of natural vegetation and biodiversity. Land degradation is hence an interactive process involving multiple factors, among which climate, land-use, economic dynamics and socio-demographic forces play a key role. Especially in the Mediterranean basin, joint biophysical and socioeconomic factors shape the intrinsic level of vulnerability of both natural and agricultural land to degradation. The interplay between biophysical and socioeconomic factors may become extremely complex over time and space, resulting in specific patterns of landscape deterioration. This paper summarizes theoretical expectations and empirical knowledge in the field of soil and landscape degradation in Mediterranean Europe, evidencing the intimate relationship between agriculture and socio-demographic factors of growth (or decline) of rural areas. Understanding spatio-temporal trends of each factor underlying land degradation and the related background context is a key tool in the assessment of the spatial distribution of vulnerable and critical land to degradation. Empirical results of a permanent monitoring of land degradation contributes to delineate more effective conservation policies through identification of target areas requiring specific actions for biodiversity and landscape protection. With increasing human pressure on rural environments, a diachronic evaluation of patterns and processes of land degradation reveals particularly appropriate in a both positive and normative perspective, prefiguring new actions for soil conservation and landscape valorization under global change.

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“…This provided major variable sources for the model. Other studies [8,36,46,52,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65] supplied important information for variable selection and pathway determination. When data were unavailable, proxy datasets were identified.…”

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Model Prediction of Secondary Soil Salinization in the Keriya Oasis, Northwest China

Seydehmet

Nurmemet

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Significant anthropogenic and biophysical changes have caused fluctuations in the soil salinization area of the Keriya Oasis in China. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) sustainability framework and Bayesian networks (BNs) were used to integrate information from anthropogenic and natural systems to model the trend of secondary soil salinization. The developed model predicted that light salinization (vegetation coverage of around 15-20%, soil salt 5-10 g/kg) of the ecotone will increase in the near term but decelerate slightly in the future, and that farmland salinization will decrease in the near term. This trend is expected to accelerate in the future. Both trends are attributed to decreased water logging, increased groundwater exploitation, and decreased ratio of evaporation/precipitation. In contrast, severe salinization (vegetation coverage of around 2%, soil salt ≥20 g/kg) of the ecotone will increase in the near term. This trend will accelerate in the future because decreased river flow will reduce the flushing of severely salinized soil crust. Anthropogenic factors have negative impacts and natural causes have positive impacts on light salinization of ecotones. In situations involving severe farmland salinization, anthropogenic factors have persistent negative impacts.

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An exploratory analysis of land abandonment drivers in areas prone to desertification

Cited by 40 publications

References 17 publications

Irrigation Salinity Risk Assessment and Mapping in Arid Oasis, Northwest China

Irrigation Salinity Risk Assessment and Mapping in Arid Oasis, Northwest China

Desertification Risk and Rural Development in Southern Europe: Permanent Assessment and Implications for Sustainable Land Management and Mitigation Policies

Model Prediction of Secondary Soil Salinization in the Keriya Oasis, Northwest China

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