Multifaceted Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Drylands: A Review

Maria Jose Marques, Gudrun Schwilch, Nina Lauterburg, Stephen Crittenden, Mehreteab Tesfai, Jannes Stolte, Pandi Zdruli, Claudio Zucca, Thorunn Petursdottir, Niki Evelpidou, Anna Karkani, Yasemen AsliYilmazgil, Thomas Panagopoulos, Eshetu Yirdaw, Markku Kanninen, Jose Luis Rubio, Ute Schmiedel & Adrian Doko (2016)

This review covers recent efforts in landscape restoration and rehabilitation with a functional perspective aiming to simultaneously achieve ecosystem sustainability, economic efficiency, and social wellbeing. Water management and rehabilitation of ecosystem services in  croplands, rangelands, forests, and coastlands are reviewed.