Climate risk · Rationale

Desertification

Soil hazard characterised by land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from climatic variations and human activities, reducing the biological and economic productivity of drylands.

Definition source: UNCCD: Desertification; IPCC SRCCL

Synonyms

desertisation

Broader

Soil hazard

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_149 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_149
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_149)