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"Local Perception of Land Degradation in Developing Countries: A Simplified Analytical Framework of Driving Forces, Processes, Indicators and Coping Strategies"
Juan Pulido and Gerardo Bocco 
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 LD processes and driving forces
3 From local perception to definition of LD indicators
4 Farmers’ attitudes and strategies to cope with LD
5 Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Footnotes
Tables
In this paper, “land” is regarded as a specific portion of the geographic space or a territory, encompassing terrain, water, soil and land cover components. This definition is derived from Ciparisse (2003).