Open Directory - Science: Environment: Climate Change: Desertification
See also: This category in other languages: - FAO website on the topic, with technical and scientific data and information available at FAO, plus internet links. Site available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish languages. - Description of ASALs Project in Africa, along with outputs, findings, significance and bibliography. - Article and photos describe desertification in China, where the desert is on the move. With dunes already 75 kilometers from Beijing, environmentalists fear the sand could swallow the capital in a few years. - Internet links to sites related to desertification, maintained by University of Arizona. - Includes information on a documentary film, education outreach and web-enabled services produced with the aim of educating young adults on the science and opportunities associated with climate change and the environmental degradation of global drylands. - Smithsonian Institution electronic exhibit about deserts and other arid and sub-humid environments, emphasizing desertification and other degradation and its consequences. - CSFD provides political decision makers with accurate information on desertification and publishes thematic reports and fact sheets. In French and English. - Joint Canada/Chile project to research the capacity of institutions in dryland regions to adapt to the impacts of climate change. - International Union of Soil Sciences working group site offers conference reports, technical papers and links to other organizations. - Describes a decision support system for land management in Italy and Portugal. Features project description, bibliography and contact details. - Information about this international project, funded by the European Union, to investigate the effects of desertification on land use in Mediterranean Europe. - Maps providing monthly updated, near real time, distributed information on rainfall, actual evapotranspiration, radiation, drought and desertification indices, and crop yield forecasts for Africa and Europe. Includes methodology discussions and links to similar resources. - Information about intergovernmental organizations, national/regional activities,non-governmental organizations in the field of desertification. Also related reports/news/information sources. - Details about mission, objectives and structure of OSS, an organization striving to build up an African arena for cooperation and exchange to combat desertification and poverty. Available in English and French. - Provides access to the official documents maintained or received by the UNCCD Secretariat and is a general source of information on the topic of desertification for the interested public. - Links to web sites providing information on desertification worldwide. - Page includes summaries of daily discusses, which featured concerned nations from around the world. Past event took place in Dakar, Senegal. (November 30, 1998) - Purpose of meeting was to discuss the problem of land degradation and to offer suggestions to prevent this phenomena. Page includes list of participating countries and their ideas. Took place 29 September - 10 October 1997, Rome Italy. (September 29, 1997)
