<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Science for Improving the Monitoring and Assessment of\r\nDryland Degradation\r\n"^^ . "The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) commissioned its First Scientific Conference in 2009 to deliberate on\r\nways to improve the global monitoring and assessment of dryland degradation to support decision-making in land and water management. The\r\npapers included in this issue of Land Degradation & Development elaborate the reasoning behind the 11 recommendations that emerged from\r\nthe Conference and were formally submitted to the UNCCD. These papers argue for a more holistic, harmonised and integrated approach to\r\ndryland monitoring and assessment, and describe scientific and institutional approaches for achieving this goal. A central challenge is to\r\nintegrate human/social with environmental observations in accordance with the Convention’s view that the interactions and tradeoffs between\r\nhuman development needs and land condition must be considered. A global monitoring and assessment regime should be established to gather\r\nand analyse relevant data on a routine basis, allowing locally-relevant indicators to be aggregated into meaningful classes appropriate to\r\ndifferent decision-making levels. The underlying forces that cause changes in land condition should also be monitored and assessed so that\r\nremedial actions can target the true causes of dryland degradation, including social, economic, policy, institutional and knowledge drivers that\r\nhave often been overlooked in the past. Monitoring and assessment should hybridise differing types of knowledge generated by different\r\nstakeholders in order to strengthen collective capacities to combat dryland degradation. An independent scientific advisory mechanism should\r\nbe created to advise the UNCCD about the results emerging from the monitoring and assessment regime in order to improve decision-making."^^ . "2011" . . "22" . . "John Wiley & Sons"^^ . . . "Land Degradation & Development"^^ . . . "10853278" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "M"^^ . "Akhtar-Schuster"^^ . "M Akhtar-Schuster"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Sommer"^^ . "S Sommer"^^ . . "M D"^^ . "Winslow"^^ . "M D Winslow"^^ . . "J V"^^ . "Vogt"^^ . "J V Vogt"^^ . . "C"^^ . "Martius"^^ . "C Martius"^^ . . "R J"^^ . "Thomas"^^ . "R J Thomas"^^ . . . . . . "Science for Improving the Monitoring and Assessment of\r\nDryland Degradation\r\n (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "mark1.pdf"^^ . . . "Science for Improving the Monitoring and Assessment of\r\nDryland Degradation\r\n (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Science for Improving the Monitoring and Assessment of\r\nDryland Degradation\r\n (Image (JPEG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #7 \n\nScience for Improving the Monitoring and Assessment of \nDryland Degradation \n\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Land Degradation"@en . .