Defining desertification: A review
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Michel M. Verstraete
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Article
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1986
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Springer
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English
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The concept of desertification was introduced in the late forties to designate a number of ecological degradation processes in tropical Africa, in particular the progressive transformation of tropical forests in savannahs or even drier ecosystems. Since then, the word has received a number of other