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TY - JOUR
T1 - Global desertification
T2 - building a science for dryland development
AU - Reynolds, J.F.
AU - Stafford-Smith, D.M.
AU - Lambin, E
AU - Turner II, B.L.
AU - Mortimore, Michael J.
AU - Batterbury, Simon
AU - Downing, T.E.
AU - Dowlatabadi, H.
AU - Fernandez, R.J.
AU - Herrick, J.E.
AU - Huber-Sannwald, E.
AU - Jiang, H.
AU - Leemans, R.
AU - Lynam, T.
AU - Maestre, F.
AU - Walker, Brian
AU - Ayarza, M.
PY - 2007/5/15
Y1 - 2007/5/15
N2 - In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent lessons about the functioning of dryland ecosystems and the livelihood systems of their human residents and introduce a new synthetic framework, the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP). The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.
AB - In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent lessons about the functioning of dryland ecosystems and the livelihood systems of their human residents and introduce a new synthetic framework, the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP). The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.
U2 - 10.1126/science.1131634
DO - 10.1126/science.1131634
M3 - Journal article
VL - 316
SP - 847
EP - 851
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 5826
ER -