Desertification: Prevention and Restoration

Policy and management approaches and strategies to address desertification can be broadly grouped as prevention and reversal. Desertification is framed within multi-scale, coupled human-environmental dynamics, and so must be the approaches for prevention and reversal. The development of integrated and participatory methods for evaluating and monitoring interventions is crucial in view of planning and implementing effective interventions. Recent approaches focus on indicators that relate to ecosystem integrity and services and to human well-being. The present Entry reviews both the theoretical and operational issues related to the subject.