Governing Drylands Through Environmental Mainstreaming: How to Cope with Natural Resources Scarcity and Climate Change

Zortea, Massimo; Lucatello, Simone

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22464-6_19

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“…The challenge is substantial because it is necessary to align commitments and strategies operating at various spatial scales. In an increasingly globalized world, many factors interact favouring and disfavouring sustainable development, and go beyond local and national contexts [68]. The transversal character of SDGs, their interlinkages [69], synergies, and contradictions [70] form an example that illustrates the need for a governance scheme to guide the PAND construction process.…”

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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

Martínez‐Valderrama

Barrio

Sanjuán

et al. 2022

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The latest world atlas of desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the intrinsic complexity of the phenomenon and the impossibility of measuring it using a single indicator, it introduces the convergence of evidence paradigm, which identifies socioeconomic and biophysical variables whose behaviour allows pointing out those areas prone to desertification. The Spanish National Action Program Against Desertification (PAND), back in 2008, already implemented a similar approach to identify five “desertification landscapes” within Spain using both socio-economic and climatic information. The PAND was not only pioneering but also, unfortunately, accurate. Desertification in Spain has continued to worsen and the first two decades of the 21st century have consolidated an agri-food model whose dynamics have exacerbated the desertification processes identified in the PAND. Despite its scientific value, the PAND lacked a proper action plan and was completely detached from the diagnosis. As a result, the diagnosis it provided was not followed by effective actions to halt desertification in Spain. The Spanish government’s recent declaration of climate and environmental emergency requires a new strategy to combat desertification. This commitment is an excellent opportunity to update the diagnosis of the situation and, more crucially, to unify the different desertification sectoral policies and actions under a single front. We provide here elements (e.g., analysis of agri-food trends and integration of plans and policies at different geographical and sectoral levels) for a roadmap to be designed around the pressures, impacts, and drivers that define today’s Spanish desertification landscapes to effectively manage and avoid their further degradation.

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Section: Perspectives Under a New Pandmentioning

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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

Martínez‐Valderrama

Barrio

Sanjuán

et al. 2022

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“…The challenge is substantial because it is necessary to align commitments and strategies operating at various spatial scales. In an increasingly globalized world many factors interact favoring and disfavoring sustainable development and go beyond local and national contexts [66]. The transversal character of SDG's, their interlinkages [67], synergies and contradictions [68] is an example that illustrates the need for a governance scheme to guide the PAND construction process.…”

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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis Unfollowed by Solutions

Martínez‐Valderrama¹,

Barrio²,

Sanjuán³

et al. 2022

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The latest World Atlas of Desertification represents a turning point in the diagnosis of desertification. While it forgoes desertification mapping due to the intrinsic complexity of the phenomenon and the impossibility of measuring it using a single indicator, it introduces the Convergence of Evidence paradigm, which identifies socioeconomic and biophysical variables whose behavior allows pointing out those areas prone to desertification. The Spanish National Action Program Against Desertification (PAND), back to 2008, already implemented a similar approach to identify five “desertification landscapes” within Spain using both socio-economic and climatic information. The PAND was not only pioneering but also, unfortunately, accurate. Desertification in Spain has continued to worsen and the first two decades of the 21st century have consolidated an agri-food model whose dynamics have exacerbated the desertification processes identified in the PAND. Despite its scientific value, the PAND lacked a proper action plan and was completely detached from the diagnosis. As a result the diagnosis it provided was not followed by effective actions to halt desertification in Spain. The Spanish Government's recent declaration of climate and environmental emergency requires a new strategy to combat desertification. This commitment is an excellent opportunity to update the diagnosis of the situation and, more crucially, to unify the different desertification sectoral policies and actions under a single front. We provide here elements for a roadmap to be designed around the pressures, impacts, and drivers that define today's Spanish desertification landscapes to manage them effectively and avoid their further degradation.

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Climate change and sustainability: The roles of natural resources and societal cohesion to decision planning

Kyriakopoulos

2023

Reference Module in Social Sciences

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Governing Drylands Through Environmental Mainstreaming: How to Cope with Natural Resources Scarcity and Climate Change

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Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis Unfollowed by Solutions

Climate change and sustainability: The roles of natural resources and societal cohesion to decision planning

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