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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      30 March 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511720772
      9780521104272
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720772
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Human Geography, Area Studies, African Studies, Geography
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    This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the observable resilience of semi-arid ecosystems and the adaptive strategies of the human communities that inhabit them and suggests policy directions for strengthening that resilience.

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