Questioning desertification in dryland sub-Saharan Africa

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Natural Resources Forum

• Publication date

  2002-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/0165-0203.T01-1-00023
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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