Desertification in Africa - Critique and an Alternative Approach
(1993) In GeoJournal 31(1). p.23-32- Abstract
- This article critically reviews the international debate on desertification, its status, rate as well as causes and consequences. The article rejects the commonly used concept of a degrading environment, but tries to explain the environmental problems as symptoms of a wider economic and political crisis. An alternative approach applying systems analysis of the entire socio-eco-system to the study of desertification and land degradation is discussed, with examples from the Western Sudan
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- author
- Olsson, Lennart LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1993
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- GeoJournal
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 23 - 32
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0027760365
- ISSN
- 1572-9893
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 88ef3551-4597-4fbd-88d9-78fbe19616a9 (old id 789542)
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