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Desertification in Africa - Critique and an Alternative Approach

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Summary, in English

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

Publishing year

1993

Language

English

Pages

23-32

Publication/Series

GeoJournal

Volume

31

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1572-9893