Book of Abstracts

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The new world atlas of desertification and its potential for addressing the ZNLD ................................ 64
From combating desertification in drylands to global land degradation neutrality – the Zero Net Land
Degradation ............................................................................................................................................ 64
Restoring degraded lands and the flow of its provisioning services ....................................................... 65
Land Degradation from Ecosystems Management and Resilience Perspectives .................................... 66
Exploiting provision of land economic productivity without degrading its natural capital ................... 66
Achieving ZNLD through people power ................................................................................................ 67
Combating Aeolian Desertification in Northern China .......................................................................... 67
Evidence on the Ground of ZNLD: Case study of Community Development Centre, Aranayake, Sri
Lanka ...................................................................................................................................................... 68
Is Zero Net Land Degradation in Dry Areas a Feasible Operational Goal? ........................................... 68
PROJECT WADI ATTIR ......................................................................................................................................... 69
PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIFE IN DESERTS AND DRYLANDS ....................................................................... 69
Serological and molecular survey of Leishmania parasites in apparently healthy dogs in the West Bank,
Palestine .................................................................................................................................................. 69
Rio+20 and Global Environmental Justice: Environmental Ethics in the Age of Eco-Colonialism ...... 70
The Integration Nexus for Health Development: Recurring Option for the Nomadic Settings, Amref’s
Experience .............................................................................................................................................. 70
Agro-Pastoralists’ Preparedness for Climate Hazards Under Rapid Environmental and Institutional
Changes in the Gobi Desert: Consequences for Food Security and Public Health Governance ............ 71
Exploring the potential contribution of woodlands to public health in Southern Africa ........................ 72
REHABILITATION OF DESERTIFIED AREAS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AFFORESTATION AND
FOREST MANAGEMENT – SOLUTIONS AND SUCCESSES OF LONG TERM .......................................... 72
Building the resilience of sand dune communities in the sahelian ecosystem through domestication of a
wood production initiative and livelihood improvement strategies ........................................................ 72
"Climate proof" plants: Combating aridity through improved agro-techniques ..................................... 73
Landscape approaches to climate change: The place of agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation in
drylands .................................................................................................................................................. 74
Forests and agro-forestry restoration in arid zones using treated waste water: preliminary results from
Italian projects in North Africa and the Middle East .............................................................................. 74
Assessment of afforestation management systems by soil quality and primary productivity in a semiarid
area .................................................................................................................................................. 75
Balancing biodiversity and afforestation policies in the drylands: Evaluating the Israeli experience ... 75
REMOTE SENSING: TOOLS AND IMPLICATIONS IN DRYLANDS ............................................................ 76
Remote sensing – Tools and implications: Case study South Sudan ..................................................... 76
Integration of satellite observations ........................................................................................................ 77
Effects of precipitation, radiation and rock type on response of Pinus halepensis forests to drought
stress: evaluation by means of remote sensing ....................................................................................... 77
Estimation of TOP Soil Organic Matter in Arid Lands using TM Multispectral Images ....................... 78
Degraded soils and the Great Barrier Reef: A desktop approach for mapping and modeling gullies over
large areas ............................................................................................................................................... 79
Long term monitoring of Queensland rangelands using remote sensing ................................................ 79
Estimating outdoor water consumption in a coupled human-environment system using remote sensing
................................................................................................................................................................ 80
Characterization of urban growth and water demand in a desert city – Tucson, Arizona ...................... 80
Using two complementary long-term remote sensing datasets to globally assess dryland vegetation
responses to multiple drivers .................................................................................................................. 81
Characterizing drylands in the Ganga River Basin using geoinformatics and modeling techniques ..... 81
Land change and degradation along the US-Mexico border; the case of Ambos Nogales ..................... 82