Talk:Desertification

message: I am unsure why the second image in this article is Lake Chad:
1) Desertification is defined as:  a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid. Is Lake Chad a dryland?
2) It is unclear from the image or the article that the area that Lake Chad has retreated from is indeed becoming desert. From the large photo it looked pretty green, but it it is indeed turning into desert it would be good to have a reference clarify this.
3) The typical cause for desertification is stated as overgrazing. As nothing is grazing in Lake Chad, so the retreat of Lake Chad is not a typical example of desertification (if an example at all, see point 2). Should the second image of the article not be something that is typical for the process?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:285:8180:1A10:5C21:C3F2:217A:3D3C (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. I have moved that image to Lake Chad now. Note that article doesn't even mention desertification. EMsmile (talk) 09:48, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lake Chad image 

message: I don't thinks this long and outdated list of bibliography (= further reading ?) is useful here so I have taken it out:
* 
* Barbault R., Cornet A., Jouzel J., Mégie G., Sachs I., Weber J. (2002). Johannesburg. World Summit on Sustainable Development. 2002. What is at stake? The contribution of scientists to the debate. Ministère des Affaires étrangères/adpf.
* 
* Batterbury, S.P.J. & A.Warren (2001) Desertification . in N. Smelser & P. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopædia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier Press. pp. 3526–3529
* 
* 
* 
* 
* Holtz, Uwe (2007). Implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification from a parliamentary point of view – Critical assessment and challenges ahead. Online at  
* Holtz, Uwe (2013). Role of parliamentarians in the implementation process of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. A guide to Parliamentary Action, ed. Secretariat of the UNCCD, Bonn . Online at  
* 
* Lucke, Bernhard (2007): Demise of the Decapolis. Past and Present Desertification in the Context of Soil Development, Land Use, and Climate. Online at  
* 
* Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Desertification Synthesis Report
* Moseley, W.G. and E. Jerme 2010. “Desertification.” In: Warf, B. (ed). Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage Publications. Volume 2, pp. 715–719.
* 
* 
* Reynolds, James F., and D. Mark Stafford Smith (ed.) (2002) Global Desertification – Do Humans Cause Deserts? Dahlem Workshop Report 88, Berlin: Dahlem University Press
* 
* UNCCD (1994) United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
* The End of Eden a 90-minute documentary by South African filmmaker Rick Lomba in 1984 on African desertification
* Li, S.G., Harazono, Y., Oikawa, T., Zhao, H.L., He, Z.Y. and Chang, X.L., 2000. Grassland desertification by grazing and the resulting micrometeorological changes in Inner Mongolia. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 102(2-3), pp.125-137.
* Hassan, M.H.A., 2012. under the auspices of the International Center for Theoretical. Physics of desertification, p.1.
* Dregne, H.E., 1986. Desertification of arid lands. Physics of desertification, pp.4-34.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-4388-9_2
* Hulme, M. and Kelly, M., 1993. Exploring the links between desertification and climate change. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 35(6), pp.4-45.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00139157.1993.9929106?journalCode=venv20  EMsmile (talk) 09:40, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed long list with "bibliography" 

message: Hi User:ASRASR, I see you have done some improvements on this article recently. Could you please summarise here what improvements you have made, and what still remains to be done? I wonder if the section on "causes" needs to be beefed up. It seems rather short when I compare it to the causes in the deforestation article and also in comparison to the rest of the article (see above on this talk page a table on section sizes, for comparison). I think we should explain better (also in the lead) whether climate change is a main cause or only "another cause". I assume it's not the main cause of desertification that we are seeing but I am no expert on this, nor have I read the available literature. EMsmile (talk) 12:20, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. with regards to climate change, it would be good to check what the IPCC AR 6 report, Working Group II, says about the effects of climate change on desertification. It's not yet used as a reference for this article. EMsmile (talk) 12:24, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements in Sept and Oct 2023 

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://www.academia.edu/41269769/Desertification_Causes_and_Effects https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344600730_Greening_the_desert_areas_of_northern_Nigeria https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342944088_A_review_of_impact_of_recurrent_bush_burning_on_the_climate_change_paradigm_The_Nigerian_experience. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, provided it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  — SamX [talk · contribs] 05:03, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed