- Wind and water erosion, and salinization
- Soil biology and chemistry for desertification characterization
- Desertification and draught
- Degradation of vegetation and ecological system
- Integrated impact of artificial and natural processes
Engineering and management systems for desertification
prevention and control
- Engineering techniques for desertification prevention by vegetation
- Soil and water conservation
- Water resources engineering
- Ecological recovery from land degradation caused by infrastructure constructions
- Conservation of Natural resources and protection of historical sites
- The sustainable development of ecological, geological and water resources
- Scientific management of community and tourism
- Integrated sustainable system for social and economic development and
environmental conservation
Leading edge research
- Climate change and desertification
- Water resource scarcity and desertification
- Land cover change and desertification
- Human activities, natural plagues and desertification
- Infrastructure construction and desertification
- Urbanization and desertification
Contemporary issues on desertification control
- Human and natural dynamics, and control engineering of global desertification
- Role and functions of forestry
- Social and economic structure and desertification
- Decision management and desertification
- Civilization evolution and desertification
- Empirical models and schema for desertification prevention and control
Applications of environmental informatics
- Desertification process model and simulation
- Control theory and methodologies of sustainable engineering
- Evaluation system for desertification assessment
- GIS/RS and other spatial information technologies
- Models for resources management, policy analysis, risk evaluation and process
control
- Artificial intelligence and knowledge acquisition for environmental decision support
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