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7 produkter
Adapting to Drought
Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa
Häftad, 2009
669 kr
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This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The …
Roots in the African Dust
Sustaining the Sub-Saharan Drylands
Inbunden, 1998
1416 kr
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The image of Africa in the modern world has come to be shaped by perceptions of the drylands and their problems of poverty, drought, degradation, and famine. Michael Mortimore offers an alternative and revisionist thesis, dismissing on theoretical and empirical grounds the conventional view of …
Roots in the African Dust
Sustaining the Sub-Saharan Drylands
Häftad, 1998
565 kr
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The image of Africa in the modern world has come to be shaped by perceptions of the drylands and their problems of poverty, drought, degradation, and famine. Michael Mortimore offers an alternative and revisionist thesis, dismissing on theoretical and empirical grounds the conventional view of …
End of Desertification?
Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
Av Roy H. Behnke, Michael Mortimore
Inbunden, 2016
1620 kr
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The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts …
End of Desertification?
Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
Av Michael Mortimore, Roy H. Behnke
E-bok, 2016
2111 kr
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The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts …
End of Desertification?
Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
Av Roy H. Behnke, Michael Mortimore
Häftad, 2018
1620 kr
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The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts …
