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02670nab a22003257a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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68978 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250620160933.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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250612s2013 -us|||p|op||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
0309-1333 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
1477-0296 (Online) |
| 024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
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| Standard number or code |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133313492543 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MX-TxCIM |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kiage, L.M. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
39410 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Perspectives on the assumed causes of land degradation in the rangelands of Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
United States of America : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
SAGE Publications, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Peer review |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Soil erosion and land degradation are serious problems in tropical Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, where they are widely recognized as more serious problems than in non-tropical areas. Sub-Saharan Africa experiences deleterious levels of soil erosion, largely due to the interaction between harsh climates of high erosivity, fragile soils of high erodibility, steep slopes, and poor natural resource management. The fundamental challenge is to separate purely background-level soil erosion due to biophysical, geomorphic, topographic, and climatic conditions from what is caused by humans. This review shows that the human-induced causes of soil erosion and land degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa are not fully understood and some of the commonly listed causes may not always stand the test of critical scrutiny. The popular views of human-induced soil erosion and land degradation not only fail to take into consideration the fact that land degradation is primarily a physical process, but also they do injustice to adaptive ecosystem management by the local inhabitants. The review specifically questions the stereotypes of overpopulation, overgrazing, deforestation, overstocking, and general rangeland degradation due to human resource use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Empirical evidence suggests that biophysical factors including soil properties, climatic characteristics, topography, and vegetation can sometimes interact among themselves to yield high soil erosion and degradation rates independent of anthropogenic impacts. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Text in English |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Land degradation |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
12025 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Overgrazing |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
39408 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Rangelands |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
11542 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Erosion |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1961 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Climatic factors |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1048 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Impact |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
32800 |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Africa South of Sahara |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1950 |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
United States of America : SAGE Publications, 2013. |
| Related parts |
v. 37, no. 5, p. 664–684 |
| Title |
Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment |
| International Standard Serial Number |
0309-1333 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Article |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |