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Article: The GCTE soil erosion network: a multi-participatory research program. (Global Change and Terrestrial Excosystems Core Project)(Special Issue: Global Change & Terrestrial Ecosystems)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
- Author:
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One of the major threats for sustainable land management is soil erosion. Erosion is a major type of human-induced land degradation; while recognizing that an accurate figure is hard to establish, Oldeman et al. (1991) suggest that about one-sixth of the world's usable land has already been degraded by water or wind erosion. Soil erosion can also cause off-site environmental problems such as increased dust in the air (Stetler et al. 1994; EPA 1990), increased transport of sediments to rivers and lakes (Robinson 1979), and siltation of reservoirs (Tagwira 1992). Global change may exacerbate current problems.
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