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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report on Adaptation, Impacts and Vulnerability identifies the urgent need to embark upon Climate Resilient Development Pathways. Climate Resilient Development acknowledges that adaptation needs to be undertaken together with mitigation and development, in joined-up, inclusive, just and equitable ways, across multiple arenas of…

An International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of the Planet Earth. Anthropocene Science is a trans- and multidisciplinary international peer-reviewed journal for addressing various anthropogenic drivers and responses of changes on the vitality, stability, and environmental functioning of the planet Earth and ground-breaking solutions for restoring and enhancing the…

The workplan for the SPI is determined by the Committee on Science and Technology every two years. It outlines the reports that the SPI is mandated to produce.

Land is our lifeline on this planet. Yet "business as usual" in how we manage land resources puts our own future on planet Earth in jeopardy, with half of humanity already facing the impacts of land degradation. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has addressed desertification, land degradation and drought for the last 30 years. Here is a short overview of topics it…

The erosive force of rainfall (rainfall erosivity) is a major driver of soil, nutrient losses worldwide and an important input for soil erosion assessments models. Here, we present a comprehensive set of future erosivity projections at a 30 arc-second (∼1 km2) spatial scale using 19 downscaled General Circulation Models (GCMs) simulating three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) for the…