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Global environmental governance: The United Nations convention to combat desertification

Rechkemmer, Andreas - 2004

This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international...

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The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment

Nkonya, Ephraim; Gerber, Nicolas; Baumgartner, Philipp; … - 2011

Since the publication of the Report of the Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future) in 1987, and the consequent Earth Summit on sustainable development, global attention on natural resource scarcity and degradation has been increasing, because of climate change and rising food and energy...

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Strom aus der Wüste: keine Fata Morgana

Kemfert, Claudia; Schill, Wolf-Peter - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 29, pp. 462-467

Die Energiepolitik steht vor zwei großen Herausforderungen: Erstens wird fossile Energie in Zukunft immer knapper und teurer, und weltweite Konflikte um Rohstoffe werden weiter zunehmen. Zweitens führt die Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger, insbesondere von Kohle, zu einem Anstieg der...

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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

Binam, Joachim N.; Place, Frank; Djalal, Arinloye A.; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28

in the Sahel are mixed. In areas with well-structured formal and informal institutions, populations seem to have adopted …

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Le Sahel central: Un effondrement inéluctable!

Gravellini, Jean-Marc - 2024

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Ad-hoc-Koalitionen in Europa: Der Sahel als Katalysator europäischer Sicherheitspolitik?

Tull, Denis - 2022

vom übrigen europäischen Engagement im Sahel unterscheidet: Es handelte sich um einen riskanten Kampfeinsatz einer … Sahel, aber ebenso das Bemühen, das Ambitionsniveau der verteidigungspolitischen Kooperation in Europa anzuheben, zur Not …

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Opportunities for Danish stabilisation policy to engage with climate- and livelihood-related conflict

Schouten, Peer - 2021

The Horn of Africa and the Sahel are among the most fragile regions in the world: poor, lacking basic infrastructure … strengthen Danish stabilisation efforts in the Horn and Sahel. It foregrounds notions of fragility that move away from a focus on … strong state institutions towards the adaptive capacities of populations in the hinterlands of the Horn and the Sahel to deal …

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Satellite-based tree cover mapping for forest conservation in the drylands of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA): Application to Burkina Faso gazetted forests

Adjognon, Guigonan Serge; Rivera-Ballesteros, Alexis; … - In: Development Engineering 4 (2019), pp. 1-11

While monitoring the effectiveness of forest conservation programs requires accurate data on (changes in) forest cover, many countries still lack the ability to map local forest inventory, especially in the drylands of Africa where forest areas are very sparsely covered. In this paper, we...

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Niger - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security

Adamou, Rabani; Ibrahim, Boubacar; Bonkaney, Abdou Latif; … - 2021

The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world. Located in the central part, Niger is …

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Nigeria - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development: A study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security

Olayide, Olawale Emmanuel - 2021

This review report involves the analysis and synthesis of literatures on climate change, land use, energy, livelihoods and sustainable development in Nigeria. The methodology employed in the review involves searching keywords related to the study objectives on relevant literature search engines...

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