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Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people—or around 2.8 percent of the…

Groundswell : Preparing for Internal Climate Migration
The Geography of Future Water Challenges

This publication shows that, without improved water management or adaptation to climate change, the global sustainability goals cannot be achieved. The report highlights the urgent need for an integrated approach to limiting climate- and water-related risks. Using maps and infographics, The geography of future water challenges shows the water-related challenges of tomorrow, under a business-as…

The Geography of Future Water Challenges
Desertification and its effects on health: The role of an international interface for science, policy and civil society

All four scenarios of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Desertification Synthesis Report (2005) show a likely increase in land degradation in drylands that is also known as desertification. Unsustainable land use leads to the degradation of goods and services provided by dryland ecosystems. These include the degradation of food and water resources, fuel and construction material as well as…

Desertification and its effects on health: The role of an international interface for science, policy and civil  society
Desertification in the Butana

Within the project “Morphodynamic Processes and Desertification” of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, research has been carried out on the desertification of the Butana region in the Sahel of the Rep. of Sudan. The abolition of traditional rights of land use, with the resulting disorganized utilization of grazing lands and the self-generated sedentarization of many formerly nomadic groups,…

Desertification in the Butana