Degradation
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1. Sustainability - United Nations - Sustainable Development Goals - SDG 15 - land.
Abbreviation for land degradation.
The OECD defines land degradation as including reduction or loss of biological or economic productivity - or complexity - of relevant land.
Land degradation can result from pollution, patterns of agriculture and other land use, natural processes, destruction of vegetation, or the interaction of these activities and processes.
An extreme form of land degradation is desertification.
2.
Any reduction in the quality - or the perceived quality - of something.
See also
- Biodiversity
- Deforestation
- Desertification
- Ecosystem
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- SDG 15
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Development Goals
- United Nations
