Abstract
We propose a method based on multilayered mapping for investigating the current problems of people who live in drylands and we urge decision-makers to support such studies to establish the foundations for future decisive and preventive actions. This paper contains an expandable compilation of the environmental indicators (mostly mappable) that may influence the human geography of a certain region. We believe that this geospatial approach may help to resolve convoluted physical, chemical, and social relationships and, at the same time, generate a valuable database for further research. The application of the concept, if successful, will give directions to tackle certain contemporary problems in drylands and predict future ones caused by global climate change.
Highlights
The rapid development of the geographic information system (GIS) during the last quarter of a century has led to a diversity of uses in data visualization and analysis and paved the method’s way for a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture (Gaborjanyi et al, 2003), geology, environmental science (Healy and Walshe, 2019), and most recently in social sciences (Ballas et al, 2017; Carter 2019; Lechner et al, 2019)
This paper contains an expandable compilation of the environmental indicators that may influence the human geography of a certain region
The application of the concept, if successful, will give directions to tackle certain contemporary problems in drylands and predict future ones caused by global climate change
Summary
The rapid development of the geographic information system (GIS) during the last quarter of a century has led to a diversity of uses in data visualization and analysis and paved the method’s way for a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture (Gaborjanyi et al, 2003), geology, environmental science (Healy and Walshe, 2019), and most recently in social sciences (Ballas et al, 2017; Carter 2019; Lechner et al, 2019). We outline a concept of a) using multilayered mapping for studying current, day-to-day existential problems of people who live in drylands and b) present an expandable compilation of the environmental indicators (mostly mappable) that may influence the human geography of a dryland region. The application of the concept, if successful, will give directions to tackle certain contemporary problems and predict future ones caused by global climate change in drylands
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