Climate change and desertification: Where do we stand, where should we go?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 105-110

  Verstraete, Michel M ^a   Brink, Andreas B ^a   Scholes, Robert J ^b   Beniston, Martin ^c   Stafford Smith, Mark ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Desertification

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049117314     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.09.003     Document Type: Editorial

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