Editor’s Foreword

Abstract

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: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44463100) 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