Land Degradation & Development

Subject: Land Degradation & Development
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:35:58 -0400 (EDT)

Land Degradation & Development 

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/6175

ISSN: 1099-145X 

Land Degradation & Development is an international journal which seeks to
promote rational study of the recognition, monitoring, control and
rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments. The journal
focuses on:

     what land degradation is;
     what causes land degradation;
     the impacts of land degradation
     the scale of land degradation;
     the history, current status or future trends of land
       degradation;
     avoidance, mitigation and control of land degradation;
     remedial actions to rehabilitate or restore degraded land;
     sustainable land management.

Land degradation may be defined as the loss of utility or potential
utility through the reduction of or damage to physical, social, cultural
or economic features, and/or reduction of ecosystem diversity. There may
be a single cause or a complex mix of causes, some may be biogeophysical
('natural'), some socioeconomic ('human') and it is quite possible that
cause(s) will be indirect, perhaps cumulative and difficult to identify. A
major challenge is to learn how interactions between development and
environment can be better managed to increase prospects for ecologically
and socially sustainable improvements to human well-being.

Available by subscription only.

Contact:

Editor: Dr Chris Barrow
Email:  c.j.barrow@swansea.ac.uk