The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands / edited by Roy H. Behnke, Michael Mortimore.
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 our...
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