Land degradation neutrality: A review of progress and perspectives

作者：Siyuan Feng, Wenwu Zhao, Tianyu Zhan, Yue Yan, Paulo Pereira · 发表于：Ecological Indicators · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109530 · 被引用次数：93 · 研究领域：Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management、Land Rights and Reforms、Land Use and Ecosystem Services

In October 2015, the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP12) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) proposed a definition for land degradation neutrality (LDN). In the same year, the United Nations made LDN one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land, 15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world). LDN has critical to global environmental change and sustainable development research. The available LDN reviews mainly focus on the concept of LDN and do not sufficiently elaborate on the progress of LDN research. The objectives of our work aim (1) to summarise the overview of articles on LDN (number of articles, countries of publication, and research hotspots); (2) to outline LDN assessment indicators; (3) to clarify the analysis methods of LDN driver factors; (4) to understand the research progress of predicting LDN; and (5) to assess the relation between LDN and land degradation, land restoration, and SDGs. To achieve our objectives, we searched articles focused on “land degradation neutrality” between 2013 and 2021 on the Web of Science. In total, we found 183 articles. By reviewing these papers, We found that (1) the number of articles on “land degradation neutrality” increased from 2013 to 2021; the articles on LDN mainly originate from Australia, Germany, the UK, Russia, Switzerland, ...