The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
Review
Tales of desertification across the world’s drylands are a recurrent theme in policy discourse. This book takes issue with many of the assumptions around desertification, with cases ranging from Central Asia to West Africa to the Mediterranean to the American West. It is edited by Roy Behnke, an anthropologist with deep knowledge of pastoral areas in North and Southern Africa, West Asia and more, and Michael Mortimore, sadly now late, a development geographer, who knew a huge amount about the drylands of Africa, and particularly northern Nigeria.
Title of publication: Pastoralism Research, Policy and Practice
Author: Ian Scoones
Year: 2018
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: https://pastoralismjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13570-018-0133-5
Content language: English