Publication Date:
2007-05-15
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Reynolds, James F -- Smith, D Mark Stafford -- Lambin, Eric F -- Turner, B L 2nd -- Mortimore, Michael -- Batterbury, Simon P J -- Downing, Thomas E -- Dowlatabadi, Hadi -- Fernandez, Roberto J -- Herrick, Jeffrey E -- Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth -- Jiang, Hong -- Leemans, Rik -- Lynam, Tim -- Maestre, Fernando T -- Ayarza, Miguel -- Walker, Brian -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 May 11;316(5826):847-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Department of Biology, Post Office Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. james.f.reynolds@duke.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17495163" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biodiversity
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*Desert Climate
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Ecology
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*Ecosystem
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*Environment
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Humans
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Public Policy
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Soil
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
