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Contents
1 Introduction: International Network for the Sustainability
of Drylands—Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research
for Dryland Stewardship and Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . .
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E. Huber-Sannwald, N. Martínez-Tagüeña, I. Espejel, S. Lucatello,
D. L. Coppock, and V. M. Reyes Gómez
Part I Drylands and Socio-Ecological Systems
2 Sustainable Development Goals and Drylands: Addressing
the Interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
S. Lucatello and E. Huber-Sannwald
3 Pastoralism and Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development: A Missing Piece of the Global Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
M. Niamir-Fuller and E. Huber-Sannwald
4 Changes in the Vegetation Cover and Quality of Aquifers
in the Drylands of Mexico: Trends in an Urbanized Complex
of Three Socio-Ecological Systems Within the Chihuahuan
Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
V. M. Reyes Gómez, D. Núñez López, and M. Gutiérrez
5 The Socio-Ecological Systems Approach to Research
the Integrated Groundwater Management in an Agricultural
Dryland in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
M. Villada-Canela, R. Camacho-López, and D. M. Muñoz-Pizza
6 Forced Modernization in Drylands: Socio- Ecological
System Disruption in the Altiplano of San Luis Potosí, Mexico . . . . . 97
L. Ortega and J. Morán