荒漠化防治外文文献 Desertification_ History, causes and options for its control.pdfVIP

land degradation development Land Degrad. Develop. 27: 1783– 1787 (2016) Published online in Wiley Online Library () DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2525 EDITORIAL DESERTIFICATION: HISTORY, CAUSES AND OPTIONS FOR used it to describe the expansion of desert-like conditions ITS CONTROL in non-desert areas (Aubréville, 1949). The desert-like con- ditions were characterized as non-productive or very low productive areas. Later on, during the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, desertification was defined as ‘land deg- DUST BOWL radation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, In 1939 John Steinbeck published his famous novel ‘The resulting from various factors including climatic variations Grapes of Wrath’, which describes the fate of the Joad and human activities’. This definition was adopted in 1994 family who were forced to give up their lives as farmers in by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Oklahoma in the early 1930s. The reason for abandoning (UNCCD). their agricultural activities was the economic crisis and the The UNCCD definition specifies the climatic zones, in extended drought that hit the Great Plains. Along with the which desertification can occur. I