Transitions in land use architecture under multiple human driving forces in a semi-arid zone

Land

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 560-577

  Ouedraogo, Issa ^a   Mbow, Cheikh ^a   Balinga, Michael ^b   Neufeldt, Henry ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Deforestation; Drivers of change; Forest degradation; Land cover transition; Land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973436258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land4030560     Document Type: Article

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