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  • United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
    Contains the text of the convention, links to sites and conferences, and basic information on desertification.
    www.unccd.int
  • Wikipedia: Desertification
    Article about desertification, the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification
  • Beijing's Desert Storm
    Discusses the spread of desertification in China.
    www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html
  • Desertification of Arid Lands
    Looks at the role resource mismanagement plays in desertification.
    www.ciesin.org/docs/002-193/002-193.html
  • Desertification - Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unites Nations
    Aims to assist national, regional and international stakeholders and networks involved in sustainable development of drylands and in particular in the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
    www.fao.org/desertification
  • Sahara and Sahel Observatory
    Striving to build up an African arena for cooperation and exchange to combat desertification and poverty.
    www.unesco.org/oss
  • Global Alarm: Dust and Sandstorms from the World's Drylands
    UN report covering the physics, mechanics, and processes of dust and sandstorms as well as featuring case studies from North America, Australia, China, and Asia as a whole.
    www.unccd.int//publicinfo/duststorms/menu.php
  • Trends of Desertification and its Rehabilitation in China
    By Zhu Zhenda.
    www.ciesin.org/docs/002-224/002-224.html
  • International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought (RIOD)
    Works with regional NGOs to develop plans to combat desertification and drought.
    www.riodccd.org
  • Desertification In Iceland
    Contains information on a research and assessment program looking at causes and reclamation efforts.
    www.rala.is/desert
  • Len Milich: Desertification
    Addresses the basic arguments: Are desert lands resilient or fragile? Are changes natural or anthropogenic? Are changes reversible? How much land degradation is necessary before we declare desertification to have taken place? Does anthropogenic land degradation induce or augment meteorological drought?
    ag.arizona.edu/~lmilich/desrtif.html
  • DeMon
    Satellite-based desertification monitoring in the Mediterranean basin.
    www.feut.uni-trier.de:8080/forschung/demon
 



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