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Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1996.tb00519.x
Subject(s) - grassroots , desertification , indigenous , bates , civil society , sustainable development , political science , environmental ethics , geography , engineering , ecology , law , politics , philosophy , biology , aerospace engineering
Book reviewed in this article: The World's Savannas: Economic Driving Forces, Ecological Constraints and Policy Options for Sustainable Land Use , edited by M.D. Young and O.T. Solbrig. Policies for a Small Planet: From the International Institute for Environment and Development , edited by Johan Holmberg with a Foreword by Sir Crispin Tickell. Grassroots Environmental Action: Peoples participation in sustainable development , edited by Dharam Ghai and Jessica M. Vivian. Civil Disasters: The Role of Public Libraries following a Crisis in the Community , researched by Marilyn Dover and edited by Sylvia Simmons. Living Conditions, Disasters, and Development: An Approach to Cross‐Cultural Comparisons , by Frederick L. Bates and Walter Peacock. The Role of Indigenous Range Management Knowledge for Desertification Control in Northern Kenya , by Gufu Oba. More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya , by Mary Tiffen, Michael Mortimore and Francis Gichuki.