Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

1. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement: An Introduction and Overview
Ephraim Nkonya, Alisher Mirzabaev, Joachim Braun

2. Concepts and Methods of Global Assessment of the Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement
Ephraim Nkonya, Joachim Braun, Alisher Mirzabaev, Quang Bao Le, Ho-Young Kwon, Oliver Kirui

3. Institutional Framework of (In)Action Against Land Degradation
Philipp Baumgartner, Jan Cherlet

4. Biomass Productivity-Based Mapping of Global Land Degradation Hotspots
Quang Bao Le, Ephraim Nkonya, Alisher Mirzabaev

5. Evaluating Global Land Degradation Using Ground-Based Measurements and Remote Sensing
Weston Anderson, Timothy Johnson

6. Global Cost of Land Degradation
Ephraim Nkonya, Weston Anderson, Edward Kato, Jawoo Koo, Alisher Mirzabaev, Joachim Braun, Stefan Meyer

7. Global Drivers of Land Degradation and Improvement
Alisher Mirzabaev, Ephraim Nkonya, Jann Goedecke, Timothy Johnson, Weston Anderson

8. Global Estimates of the Impacts of Grassland Degradation on Livestock Productivity from 2001 to 2011
Ho-Young Kwon, Ephraim Nkonya, Timothy Johnson, Valerie Graw, Edward Kato, Evelyn Kihiu

9. Economics of Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ephraim Nkonya, Timothy Johnson, Ho Young Kwon, Edward Kato

10. Economics of Land Degradation in Central Asia
Alisher Mirzabaev, Jann Goedecke, Olena Dubovyk, Utkur Djanibekov, Quang Bao Le, Aden Aw-Hassan

11. Economics of Land Degradation in Argentina
Mariana E. Bouza, Adriana Aranda-Rickert, María Magdalena Brizuela, Marcelo G. Wilson, Maria Carolina Sasal, Silvana M. J. Sione, Stella Beghetto, Emmanuel A. Gabioud, José D. Oszust, Donaldo E. Bran, Virginia Velazco, Juan J. Gaitán, Juan C. Silenzi, Nora E. Echeverría, Martín P. Lucia, Daniel E. Iurman, Juan I. Vanzolini, Federico J. Castoldi, Joaquin Etorena Hormaeche, Timothy Johnson, Stefan Meyer, Ephraim Nkonya

12. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Bhutan
Ephraim Nkonya, Raghavan Srinivasan, Weston Anderson, Edward Kato

13. Economics of Land Degradation in China
Xiangzheng Deng, Zhihui Li

14. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Ethiopia
Samuel Gebreselassie, Oliver K. Kirui, Alisher Mirzabaev

15. Economics of Land Degradation in India
Gurumurthy Mythili, Jann Goedecke

16. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Kenya
Wellington Mulinge, Patrick Gicheru, Festus Murithi, Peter Maingi, Evelyne Kihiu, Oliver K. Kirui, Alisher Mirzabaev

17. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Niger
Bokar Moussa, Ephraim Nkonya, Stefan Meyer, Edward Kato, Timothy Johnson, James Hawkins

18. The Economics of Land Degradation in Russia
Alexey Sorokin, Aleksey Bryzzhev, Anton Strokov, Alisher Mirzabaev, Timothy Johnson, Sergey V. Kiselev

19. Cost, Drivers and Action Against Land Degradation in Senegal
Samba Sow, Ephraim Nkonya, Stefan Meyer, Edward Kato

20. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Tanzania and Malawi
Oliver K. Kirui

21. Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement in Uzbekistan
Aden Aw-Hassan, Vitalii Korol, Nariman Nishanov, Utkur Djanibekov, Olena Dubovyk, Alisher Mirzabaev

Keywords: Economics, Environmental Economics