The causes and progression of desertification

The Causes and Progression of Desertification

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-258

  Geist, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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