Land degradation: A global perspective |
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| Authors: | Arthur Conacher |
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| Affiliation: | School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Land degradation has a long history and is on the increase. It has adverse consequences for people's economies, health and well-being, and for ecosystems, and it is causally linked to population growth and inappropriate land-use practices. It is an urban as well as a rural problem. Solutions require an integrated, geographical approach. Otherwise, some problems may be ignored and others created inadvertently. |
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| Keywords: | land use practices management population growth salinity soil erosion |
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