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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 28 Aug 2023

Degraded land

Land that has experienced the long-term loss of ecosystem function and services caused by disturbances from which the system cannot recover unaided.

UNEP, 2007, Dent, D., Land In UNEP (Ed.), Global environmental outlook GEO4 (pp. 81–114). Nairobi, United Nations Environment Programme.

Source category: International Organisation