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Posts with the desertification tag

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Why we should stop talking about ‘desertification’

July 18th, 2016 Ian Scoones

A great new book has just been published called ‘The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands’, available at a shocking price from Springer. It is edited by two people who know a thing or two about these issues – Roy Behnke and Mike Mortimore – and it has 20 top quality chapters…

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