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Greening of the Sahel

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Lead Author: Lennart Olsson (other articles)

Article Topics: Climate change, Ecology, Environmental and resource management, Environmental health, Environmental monitoring, Geography, Remote sensing and Human ecology

This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Mryka Hall-Beyer (other articles)

Last Updated: January 30, 2008

• 1 Introducing the issue
• 2 Short environmental history of the Sahel
• 3 The greening of the Sahel
• 4 Potential causes of the greening of the Sahel
• 5 Other potential explanations for the greening
• 6 Is the observed greening a recovery from droughts?
• 7 References

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