Is sedentarization of pastoral nomads causing desertification? The case of the beni guil of Eastern Morocco

The North African Environment at Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 117-130

  Bencherifa, Abdellatif ^a  

^a AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

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