Pastoral mobility as a response to climate variability in African drylands

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS. 1, 1999, Pages 1-10

  Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate variability; Drylands; Pastoral mobility; Pastoralism; Senegal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DRYLAND FARMING; MOBILITY; PASTORALISM; RATIONALIZATION;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0033044634     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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