The Impact of Desertification Process on Natural Landscape

Relevance of the topic. The desertification process, which has become a global, socio-economic and political problem that has arisen as a result of the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors and has rapidly expanded in scale, has been studied in various directions in the last 50 years as a dangerous ecological problem in arid, semi-arid, semi-humid regions. In our republic, the study of the process in landscapes with arid climatic conditions that have a high desertification potential has begun in the last 20 years. However, the study of this process in the Kura Basin, which has an ancient history of settlement and agriculture, has not been carried out on the entire territory so far. It is from this perspective that the complex study of the desertification process in the landscapes of the Kura Basin attracts attention with its relevance. In the studied area, favorable climate, relief conditions, the presence of large rivers, and a number of desertification factors have also occurred, causing the natural landscapes to be mastered and transformed to varying degrees. Determining the factors causing desertification and the risk of desertification in the territory, and developing measures to combat them are one of the important issues of our time.