Land degredation, desertification

• Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Desertification Synthesis (2005) [pdf 3Mb]
  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Global Environment Outlook: environment for development
  (GEO-4) assessment is a comprehensive and authoritative UN report on environment, development and human well-being, providing incisive analysis and information for decision making.
• GEO4: Chapter 3 Land (2007) [pdf 1.52Mb]
  Chapter 3 addresses the land issues identified by UNEP regional groups, and highlights the pressures of human demands on the land resource as the cause of land degradation.
• The health impacts of desertification and drought [pdf, 1.3 Mb]
  Review. UNCCD Newsletter, no. 14, pages 4-6 (2000)