The nature, extent and significance of land degradation in the Mediterranean-climate region of South Africa;Wesen, Verbreitung und Bedeutung der Landdegradation in der mediterranen Klimaregion Sudafrikas

Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 142, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 303-320

  Meadows, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032442473     PISSN: 00316229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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