Lennart Olsson
Professor, Docent
Desertification in Africa - Critique and an Alternative Approach
Author
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
Department/s
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
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