The European Commissions Joint Research Centre (JRC) have produced a world atlas of desertification. The interactive maps provide insight into the extent of desertification and land degradation. The atlas focuses on five key subjects:
- Global Patterns of Human Domination
- Feeding a Growing Global Population
- Limits to Sustainability
- Converge of Evidence
- Seeking potential solutions.
Access the Atlas here: https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Full citation: Cherlet, M., Hutchinson, C., Reynolds, J., Hill, J., Sommer, S., von Maltitz, G. (Eds.), World Atlas of Desertification, Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018.