Desertification? Northern Ethiopia re-photographed after 140 years

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2749-2755

  Nyssen, Jan ^a   Haile, Mitiku ^b   Naudts, Jozef ^c   Munro, Neil ^d   Poesen, Jean ^e   Moeyersons, Jan ^f   Frankl, Amaury ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^e   Pankhurst, Richard ^g  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ADCS Food Security Project   (Ethiopia)

^d Old Abbey Associates   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^g Institute of Ethiopian Studies   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Desertification; Environmental rehabilitation; Land degradation; Land resilience; Repeat photography

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND RESILIENCE; REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURE; ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; DROUGHT; LAND USE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY; WOODLAND;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ETHIOPIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES;

CONSERVATION; CONSTRUCTION; DEGRADATION; DROUGHT; EUCALYPTUS; HARDWOODS; HEALTH; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFORESTATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; WATER;

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

PRUNELLA VULGARIS; SEPIA;

EID: 61649091785     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.016     Document Type: Article

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