“Bring Back the Land”—A Call to Refocus on the Spatial Dimension of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform

Land

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 355-377

  Hentze, Konrad ^a   Menz, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fast track land reform program; Geomatics; Public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS); Remote sensing; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973616005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land4020355     Document Type: Article

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