Место издания:Udruženje za proučavanje zemljišta/tla u Bosni i Hercegovini Sarajevo
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Аннотация:A number of new concepts and paradigms appeared during last decades, such as sustainable land management (SLM), climate change (CC) adaptation, environmental services, ecosystem health, and others. All of these initiatives still not having the common scientific platform although some agreements in terminology were reached, schemes of links and feedback loops created, and some models developed. Nevertheless, in spite of all these scientific achievements, the land related issues are still not in the focus of CC adaptation and mitigation. The last did not grow much beyond the “greenhouse gases” (GHG) concept, which makes land degradation as the “forgotten side of climate change”.
The possible decision to integrate concepts of climate and desertification/land degradation could be the considering of GHG” approach as providing global solution, and “land” approach as providing local solution covering other “locally manifesting” issues of global importance (biodiversity conservation, food security, disasters and risks, etc.) to serve as a central concept among those.
SLM concept is a land-based approach, which includes the concepts of both ecosystem-based approach (EbA) and community-based approach (CbA). SLM can serve as in integral CC adaptation strategy, being based on the statement “the more healthy and resilient the system is, the less vulnerable and more adaptive it will be to any external changes and forces, including climate”.
For these reasons the land-based approach using the LDN indicator and a tier of land-based indicators can serve as an operational tool for climate change adaptation assessment, as it was stated above in relation to the SLM assessment.