The relative importance of the different forcings on the environment in Ethiopia during the Holocene

Climate Change and Africa

Volumn 9780521836340, Issue , 2005, Pages 23-28

  Mohammed, Mohammed U ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; HUMAN IMPACT; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; MARGINAL ZONE; RIFT VALLEY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84880258246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535864.012     Document Type: Chapter

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