Land degradation highly affects the sustainability of agricultural production, food security and ecosystem services in the natural environment. Various attempts have been made to assess land degradation at multiple spatial scales from local to global. Prior methodologies, in general, show a strong bias towards assessing only biological and physical factors of land degradation, ignoring the equally significant social and economic factors. In this book, a new probabilistic approach to assess land degradation and its causes in dry lands is introduced. The suitability of Bayesian Networks for...