Insistent dryland narratives: Portraits of knowledge about human-environmental interactions in sahelian environment policy documents

West African Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-111

  Reenberg, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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