Description
Percentage of land that is degraded over total land area.
This indicator is proposed as an indicator for Sustainable Development Target 15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
Value Range
Data
** Trends in Land Cover/Land Use: (1) Global: e.g. http://www.glcn.org/databases/se_change_en.jsp, http://www.esalandcover- cci.org/ (2) Regional: e.g. http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-andmaps/ data/corine-land-cover ** Trends in Land Productivity: remote sensing data bases of NDVI and other Vegetation Indices/Variables, e.g.
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov , http://land.copernicus.eu/global/themes/Vegetation , http://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ **
Trends in Soil Organic Carbon: global spatial layers: Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD),
http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ESDB_Archive/octop/Global.html **
More detail on all elements of data sources may be found in the attached document on meta-data
Linkages: 1.5, 2.3, 2.4, 6.6, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2 and 15.5
Questions, answers and comments
Sources
The list of indicator proposals (as of 11 August 2015) used for the IAEG-SDG Open Consultation with Civil Society, Academia and Private Sector.
460 item pages.