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This article critically reviews the international debate on desertification, its status and 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-economic-system to the study of desertification and land degradation is discussed, with examples from the Western Sudan.
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Olsson, L. Desertification in Africa — A critique and an alternative approach. GeoJournal 31, 23–31 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00815899
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