Wildfires in algeria: Problems and challenges

IForest

Volumn 8, Issue Dec2015, 2015, Pages 818-826

  Meddour Sahar, Ouahiba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Algeria; Forest fires; MENA; Prevention policy; SWOT analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949769534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor1279-007     Document Type: Article

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