Integrated Indicators for the Estimation of Vulnerability to Land Degradation

摘要: The setting up of sustainable development strategies, able to balance the opposite demands economic growth and environmental protection, is one fundamental challenges for international community. Our developing world experiencing growing pressures on its land, water, food production systems role human society in determin‐ ing change within Earth environment becoming ever more central [1]. In this context, preserving land productivity a prior goal, especially those areas, such as drylands, which are particularly fragile from an ecological point view.