Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850
Book Details
Author(s)
Jr. James L.A. Webb
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN / ASIN
0299143341
ISBN-13
9780299143343
Category
Business & Economics
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
A study of the ecological and economic impact of desertification along the southern edge of the western Sahara. A climatological trend toward increasing aridity has forced the desert 300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the Western Sahel.
