Abstract: Land degradation in the previous century has become one of the main challenges to the global environment, especially this phenomenon became very common for the dry climate zones. Uzbekistan also faces the land degradation consequences and the application of the up-to-date technologies can help to save a soil. The current chapter describes the land degradation problems, which face Uzbekistan and different ways of finding solutions. Soil erosion and soil salinity are main issues for the land degradation in Uzbekistan. In addition, climate change phenomena effects have been discussed. Climate change regionally will increase by the number of extreme weather events, periods with droughts and high summer temperatures, fluctuations in the regime of water resources formation, and land degradation. Furthermore, the current status of the Aral Sea shows that the region became a zone of applying environmental innovation and technologies. In the last part, we listed the main priorities of soil science development in Uzbekistan. This chapter can be applied as a methodological recommendation for stakeholders in agriculture and water resources management fields in dealing with the consequences of land degradation.
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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