Adapting to Dams: Agrarian change downstream of the Tiga Dam, Northern Nigeria

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 919-935

  Thomas, David H L ^a   Adams, William M ^b  

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RURAL ECONOMY; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0032808605     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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