Land Degradation Evaluation, Alleviation, and Restoration in Watersheds

Dear Colleagues, 

Land degradation is one of the major types of environmental degradation all over the world. During the processes of land degradation, soil erosion leads to the decline of organic matter and nutrients in the soil system, salinization, compaction, biodiversity loss, and eventually land desertification. Subjected to the changes in climate and land use/land cover, processes of land degradation in watersheds also have an impact on the ecosystem services in the provisioning, supporting, and regulating aspects. In this Special Issue, we focus on the phenomena and managing measures of land degradation at the regional scale. Studies submitted to the Special Issue should fit into the scope of investigation, evaluation, alleviation, and restoration of ecosystem services and land degradation in watersheds. The purposes are illustrating the intercorrelations and proposing the historical, current, and/or future conditions of land degradation and ecosystem service variation, under scenarios of different land use/land cover and climate change, as the knowledge base for pursuing sustainable land management, combating desertification, and halting and reversing land degradation. Original research and technical notes that include but are not limited to the following topics are welcome:

• Data collection, field investigation, and evaluation of the evidence of land degradation;
• Illustration and quantification of the relationship between ecosystem services and land degradation;
• Assessing tools and models of land degradation and ecosystem services;
• Simulation of land degradation and ecosystem services with land management scenarios;
• Simulation of land degradation and ecosystem services with climate change scenarios;
• Engineering methods and managing strategies to halt, alleviate, and reverse land degradation.

Prof. Dr. Yung-Chieh Wang
Guest Editor

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• desertification
• soil erosion
• ecosystem services
• land use/land cover
• land management
• forestation
• environmental footprint
• climate change
• Sustainable Development Goals