期刊名称：Science et changements planétaires / Sécheresse
印刷版ISSN：1147-7806
电子版ISSN：1777-5922
出版年度：2007
卷号：18
期号：4
页码：328-335
DOI：10.1684/sec.2007.0104
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Authors Maud Loireau , Mongi Sghaier , Mondher Fétoui , Magatte Ba , Mohamed Abdelrazik , Jean-Marc d’Herbès , Jean-Christophe Desconnets , Didier Leibovici , Stéphane Debard , Éric Delaître Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Unité de service Espace, Maison de la télédétection (MTD), 500, rue Jean-François Breton, 34093 Montpellier cedex 05 France, Institut des régions arides (Ira), Laboratoire d’économie et sociétés rurales, Route de Jorf, 4119 Médenine Tunisie, Centre de suivi écologique (CSE), Gestion de ressources naturelles (GRN), Rue LG Damas, Fann-Résidence, BP 15532, Dakar Sénégal, Université d’Alexandrie, Department of Botany, 21511 Moharran Bey, Alexandrie Égypte, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), BP 64501 34394 Montpellier cedex 5 Key words: anthropic factor, desertification, environmental monitoring, information system, modelling, natural resources, vegetation DOI : 10.1684/sec.2007.0104 Page(s) : 328-35 Published in: 2007 Within the context of environmental surveillance and combating desertification in rural drylands, a local environmental information system (Siel, système d’information sur l’environnement à l’échelle locale) has been developed and implemented on agropastoral areas in Africa. Using a generic approach and appropriate environmental models, Siel makes it possible to assess the intensity of land degradation risk (past, current and future) relative to local human pressure and biophysical characteristics. This intensity differs in time and space depending on the level and spatial distribution of human and biophysical causes. The aim and characteristics of Siel are described in this article. Evaluation is carried out of its capacity to feed and organize a sustainable device for environmental monitoring and assessment using a network of local observatories, such as Réseau d’observatoires de surveillance écologique à long terme (Roselt, Long Term Ecological Monitoring Observatories Network), to give useful information (diagnosis and forecasting) for a better dialogue with decision-makers through explorative modelling. To illustrate these points we focus on two selected results (degree of artificialization and index of human pressure on natural vegetation). These results come from four Roselt/OSS (Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel, Sahara and Sahel Observatory) observatories on which the most relevant progress has been made.
