The Resilience of Ethiopian Church Forests: Interpreting Aerial Photographs, 1938–2015

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Land Degradation & Development

• Publication date

  2017-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/ldr.2633
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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