Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis (full report)
This is a report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Core Writing Team: Zafar Adeel, Uriel Safriel, David Niemeijer, and Robin White
Extended Writing Team: Grégoire de Kalbermatten, Michael Glantz, Boshra Salem, Bob Scholes, Maryam Niamir-Fuller, Simeon Ehui, and Valentine Yapi-Gnaore
Review Editors: José Sarukhán and Anne Whyte (co-chairs) and MA Board of Review Editors
Published: 2005, World Resources Institute
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- Foreword (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis: Foreword)
- Preface (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis (full report))
- Reader’s Guide
- Summary for Decision-makers (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis: Summary for Decision-makers)
- Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- How is desertification related to ecosystem services and human well-being?
- Who is affected by desertification?
- What are the major causes of desertification?
- How will different future development paths affect desertification?
- How can we prevent or reverse desertification?
- What are the linkages among desertification, global climate change, and biodiversity loss?
- How can we better understand the significance of desertification?
- Appendix A. Present-day Drylands and Their Categories (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis (full report))
- Appendix B. Abbreviations and Acronyms (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis (full report))
- Appendix C. Assessment Report Tables of Contents (Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis (full report))
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Panel
Harold A. Mooney (co-chair), Stanford University, United States
Angela Cropper (co-chair), The Cropper Foundation, Trinidad and Tobago
Doris Capistrano, Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia
Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Kanchan Chopra, Institute of Economic Growth, India
Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rik Leemans, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Robert M. May, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prabhu Pingali, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Cristián Samper, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, United States
Robert Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Robert T. Watson, The World Bank, United States (ex officio)
A. H. Zakri, United Nations University, Japan (ex officio)
Zhao Shidong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Editorial Board Chairs
José Sarukhán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Anne Whyte, Mestor Associates Ltd., Canada
MA Director
Walter V. Reid, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Malaysia and United States Millennium Ecosystem
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board
The MA Board represents the users of the findings of the MA process.
Co-chairs
Robert T. Watson, Chief Scientist, The World Bank
A.H. Zakri, Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University
Institutional Representatives
Salvatore Arico, Programme Officer, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Hama Arba Diallo, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Adel El-Beltagy, Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Max Finlayson, Chair, Scientific and Technical Review Panel, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Colin Galbraith, Chair, Scientific Council, Convention on Migratory Species
Erika Harms, Senior Program Officer for Biodiversity, United Nations Foundation
Robert Hepworth, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Migratory Species
Olav Kjørven, Director, Energy and Environment Group, United Nations Development Programme
Kerstin Leitner, Assistant Director-General, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization
Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Chair, Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Convention on Biological Diversity
Christian Prip, Chair, Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Convention on Biological Diversity
Mario A. Ramos, Biodiversity Program Manager, Global Environment Facility
Thomas Rosswall, Executive Director, International Council for Science - ICSU
Achim Steiner, Director General, IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Halldor Thorgeirsson, Coordinator, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Jeff Tschirley, Chief, Environmental and Natural Resources Service, Research, Extension and Training Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Riccardo Valentini, Chair, Committee on Science and Technology, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
At-large Members
Fernando Almeida, Executive President, Business Council for Sustainable Development-Brazil
Phoebe Barnard, Global Invasive Species Programme, South Africa
Gordana Beltram, Undersecretary, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia
Delmar Blasco, Former Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Spain
Antony Burgmans, Chairman, Unilever N.V., Netherlands
Esther Camac-Ramirez, Asociación Ixä Ca Vaá de Desarrollo e Información Indigena, Costa Rica
Angela Cropper (ex officio), President, The Cropper Foundation, Trinidad and Tobago
Partha Dasgupta, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
José María Figueres, Fundación Costa Rica para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Costa Rica
Fred Fortier, Indigenous Peoples’ Biodiversity Information Network, Canada
Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Italy
Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute, United States
Wangari Maathai, Vice Minister for Environment, Kenya
Paul Maro, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Harold A. Mooney (ex officio), Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, United States
Marina Motovilova, Faculty of Geography, Laboratory of Moscow Region, Russia
M.K. Prasad, Environment Centre of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, India
Walter V. Reid, Director, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Malaysia and United States
Henry Schacht, Past Chairman of the Board, Lucent Technologies, United States
Peter Johan Schei, Director, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
Ismail Serageldin, President, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
David Suzuki, Chair, David Suzuki Foundation, Canada
M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
José Galízia Tundisi, President, International Institute of Ecology, Brazil
Axel Wenblad, Vice President Environmental Affairs, Skanska AB, Sweden
Xu Guanhua, Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, China
Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
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