Agricultural sustainability in the semi-arid Near East

Climate of the Past

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 2399-2411

  FHole, ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEMIARID REGION; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 34248571422     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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