Desertification: Implications and Limitations of the Ecosystem Health Metaphor

摘要: The semi-arid and arid regions of the world may provide some valuable insights into applicability ecosystem “health” “medicine” metaphors. These an example applications limitations metaphor because they have experienced continue to experience degradation change. Attempts at rehabilitation degraded areas has proven be expensive or impossible. Those parameters that are frequently examined determine ecosystems more robust in generally considered than those perceived as healthy. Most such suffered loss productivity measured by capacity support livestock human inhabitants. losses resulted from changes biological physical characteristics within these regions.