Building resilience to drought in desertification-prone savannas in Sub-Saharan Africa: The water perspective

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-102

  Falkenmark, Malin ^a   Rockström, Johan ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural water management; Desertification; Drought; Resilience; Water resources

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LAND DEGRADATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RESOURCE; WATER UPTAKE;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 43049126857     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: 14778947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2008.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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