Assessing the aftermath of the fast track land reform programme in Zimbabwe on land-use and land-cover changes

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-186

  Matavire, Melisa M ^a   Sibanda, Mbulisi ^b   Dube, Timothy ^c  

^a Geography and Environmental Studies   (South Africa)

^b Lupane State University   (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Land cover change; Land use policy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948184048     PISSN: 0035919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2015.1017865     Document Type: Article

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