Routledge Governing Global Desertification - Environmental Degradation & Poverty

This comprehensive Routledge volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994, exploring the critical links between land degradation and poverty affecting over 250 million people globally. Desertification impacts 70 per cent of the world's arable lands across more than 100 countries, threatening the livelihoods of an additional billion people in rural drylands. The book analyses the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD, whilst investigating various approaches to fighting desertification and its environmental consequences. Readers gain insight into how participation, policy frameworks and sustainable land management strategies address this pressing global challenge.