If You Update Models using GIS, 38% of Earth Land Surface May Turn to Desert
This is sort of hard to follow, but here’s what I understand.
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities and can predict soil degradation. For the first time, it now includes an impact category called desertification. That impact category reflects some human activities, notably cultivation or grazing on soil, something occurring across the globe. The new Montserrat Núñez, lead author and a researcher at the Institute of Agro Food Research and Technology (IRTA) and his team published their work integrating GIS with the LCA in the latest issue of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. The result: 38 percent of the world’s land surface is made up of arid regions at risk of desertification.
