Overstocking the Range: A Critical Analysis of the Environmental Science of Sahelian Pastoralism

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• Publication year

  1993

• Venue

  Economic Geography

• Publication date

  1993-10-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/143597
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