Dead planet, living planet

CASE STUDY #28

Overgrazing, deforestation or cutting of shrubs for firewood are primary causes of land and wind erosion in drylands, such in the Sahel, Central Asia, China, ranges of Argentina Erosion in drylands

and Chile, the Mediterranean and in southern and south- western US (UNEP, 2006; Ibanez et al ., 2007; Hoshino et al ., 2009).

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