Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Report articles |
| URL | http://www.globallandproject.org/newsletter/glp_news.php |
| Title (Primary) | Modelling land-use and land-cover change and the impact on water resources in northern Mongolia |
| Author | Schweitzer, C.; Priess, J.A. |
| Source Titel | GLP Newsletter |
| Year | 2009 |
| Department | CLE |
| Volume | 5 |
| Page From | 9 |
| Page To | 12 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | Mongolia's transition towards a market economy is still an ongoing process. In the last two decades almost every economic sector has undergone reorganisation consequently facing new challenges of globalisation. Rural to urban migration and sedentism of herding families are ongoing processes driven by incentives of living closer to attractive new markets, promising job and trade opportunities and the benefits of social services. The resulting concentration of human population and livestock is causing environmental and socio-economic pressures. In involved regions, water availability and usability becomes increasingly limited. Reasons could be related to climate change, deforestation, changing patterns of consumption behaviour and mining activities, less coercive for production and agricultural companies, but fundamental for herding families and small farmers forced to cover their water demand from surface-, or through laborious extraction of groundwater. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=12718 |
| Schweitzer, C., Priess, J.A. (2009): Modelling land-use and land-cover change and the impact on water resources in northern Mongolia GLP Newsletter 5 Global Land Project, Copenhagen, p. 9 - 12 |
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