We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can ‘reset’ Earth’s damaged ecosystems.

Martin F. Breed; Andrew Lowe; Nick Gellie; Peter E Mortimer

We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can ‘reset’ Earth’s damaged ecosystems.

Martin F. Breed, Andrew Lowe, Nick Gellie, Peter E Mortimer

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Abstract

Earth is in a land degradation crisis. If we were to take the roughly one-third of the world’s land that has been degraded from its natural state and combine it into a single entity, these “Federated States of Degradia” would have a landmass bigger than Russia and a population of more than 3 billion, largely consisting of the world’s poorest and most marginalised people.

Original language	English
Number of pages	3
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

land degradation
ecosystems
landscape restoration

UN SDGs

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