Assessments of landscape level degradation in Southern Ethiopia: Pastoralists versus ecologists

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 461-475

  Oba, G ^a   Kotile, D G ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Booran; Bush cover; Ethiopia; Grazing suitability; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Landscape change; Landscape patches; Potential grazing capacity; Range conditions; Range trends

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PUBLIC POLICY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

LANDSCAPE LEVEL DEGRADATION;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; PASTORALISM; RANGELAND;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0035440459     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.463     Document Type: Article

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