Human impact on the environment in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands - A state of the art

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 273-320

  Nyssen, Jan ^a,b   Poesen, Jean ^a   Moeyersons, Jan ^c   Deckers, Jozef ^a   Haile, Mitiku ^b   Lang, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Desertification; Ethiopia; Human impact; Land degradation; Late Quaternary; Sediment deposition; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEFORESTATION; DESERTIFICATION; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SOIL EROSION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 0942278104     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-8252(03)00078-3     Document Type: Article

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