A history of fear: imagining deforestation in the West African dryland forests

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  1999-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1046/J.1365-2699.1999.00146.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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