Desertification and drylands development: What can be done?

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 375-382

  Mainguet, M ^a   Da Silva, G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Africa (Sahel); Brazil (northeast); Colonization; Desertification; Development; Droughts; Drylands

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION;

EID: 0032405947     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-145x(199809/10)9:5<375::aid-ldr304>3.0.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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