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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">sergeogr</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Известия Российской академии наук. Серия географическая</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2587-5566</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2658-6975</issn><publisher><publisher-name></publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S2587556622010083</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">sergeogr-1482</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Проблемы деградации земель и устойчивого землепользования</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>От редактора выпуска</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Editor’s Foreword</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Куст</surname><given-names>Г. С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kust</surname><given-names>G. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Институт географии РАН</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>08</day><month>02</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>86</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title>Специальный выпуск: Проблемы деградации земель и устойчивого землепользования</issue-title><fpage>5</fpage><lpage>8</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Куст Г.С., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Куст Г.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kust G.S.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://izvestia.igras.ru/jour/article/view/1482">https://izvestia.igras.ru/jour/article/view/1482</self-uri><abstract><p>Идея специального выпуска научного журнала “Известия РАН. Серия географическая”, посвященного проблемам деградации земель и устойчивого землепользования, возникла по итогам Международной конференции “Деградация земель и опустынивание: проблемы устойчивого природопользования и адаптации”, прошедшей в два этапа в Институте географии РАН: в ноябре 2020 и марте 2021 гг. Материалы для публикации из представленных на конференции докладов (доступны на eLIBRARY.RU: <ext-link xlink:href="https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44463100" ext-link-type="uri">https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44463100),</ext-link> были отобраны оргкомитетом конференции и обсуждены на расширенном заседании экспертного совета Центра по борьбе с опустыниванием и засухой имени Н.Ф. Глазовского.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The idea of this special issue of the academic peerreviewed journal “Izvestiya Rosiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya” devoted to the problems of land degradation and sustainable land management followed results of the International conference “Land Degradation and Desertification: Problems of Sustainable Land Management and Adaptation”, which was held at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in two stages (November 2020 and March 2021). Proceedings of the conference (available on: <ext-link xlink:href="https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44463100" ext-link-type="uri">https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44463100</ext-link>) were reviewed and selected by the organizing committee of the conference and recommended for publication by the extended meeting of the expert council of the Center for Combating Desertification and Drought named after N.F. Glazovsky</p></trans-abstract></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title></ref-list><fn-group><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.</p></fn></fn-group></back></article>
