Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development

James F. Reynolds; D. Mark Stafford Smith; Eric F. Lambin; B. L. Turner; Michael Mortimore; Simon P.J. Batterbury; Thomas E. Downing; Hadi Dowlatabadi; Roberto J. Fernández; Jeffrey E. Herrick; Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald; Hong Jiang; Rik Leemans; Tim Lynam; Fernando T. Maestre; Miguel Ayarza; Brian Walker

doi:10.1126/science.1131634

Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development

James F. Reynolds^*, D. Mark Stafford Smith, Eric F. Lambin, B. L. Turner, Michael Mortimore, Simon P.J. Batterbury, Thomas E. Downing, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Roberto J. Fernández, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Hong Jiang, Rik Leemans, Tim Lynam, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Ayarza, Brian Walker

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In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent lessons about the functioning of dryland ecosystems and the livelihood systems of their human residents and introduce a new synthetic framework, the Drylands Development Paradigm (DDP). The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	847-851
Number of pages	5
Journal	SCIENCE
Volume	316
Issue number	5826
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1131634
State	Published - May 11 2007

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Reynolds, J. F., Stafford Smith, D. M., Lambin, E. F., Turner, B. L., Mortimore, M., Batterbury, S. P. J., Downing, T. E., Dowlatabadi, H., Fernández, R. J., Herrick, J. E., Huber-Sannwald, E., Jiang, H., Leemans, R., Lynam, T., Maestre, F. T., Ayarza, M., & Walker, B. (2007). Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development. SCIENCE, 316(5826), 847-851. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1131634

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