Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2007-05-11

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1131634PMID 17495163
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