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Lista comentada de los reptiles de Mauritania (oeste de África)
Graellsia, 2006 Esta es la primera lista de reptiles comentada con datos de distribución para la República Islámica de Mauritania. La fauna de reptiles de Mauritania se compone de 86 especies pertenecientes a 21 familias.
J. M. Padial
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The article contributes to the emerging scholarly literature on how European democracies respond to foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), whilst focusing on a single case study of France. It asks how France responded to Russian FIMI and why this response has become more forceful and comprehensive over time.
Agnieszka K. Cianciara
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Overcoming Area Studies’ Policy-Relevant Research Problem: The Case of the Sahel
New Area Studies, 2020 Despite seven years of external military interventions to counter violent extremism, the security situation in the Sahel continues to deteriorate. Hard military approaches predominate in the region despite widespread recognition amongst Sahel specialists
Tony Chafer, Ed Stoddard, Sorina Toltica
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Rainfall Intra-Seasonal Variability and Vegetation Growth in the Ferlo Basin (Senegal)
Remote Sensing, 2016 During the monsoon season, the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall impacts the growth of vegetation in the Sahel. This study evaluates this effect for the Ferlo basin in central northern Senegal. Relationships between rainfall, soil moisture (SM), and
Soukèye Cissé +5 more
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Contrasting mechanisms driving the northward expansion of African raptors in Europe
Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.Recent climate warming and landscape changes are enabling African raptors to reach Europe through contrasting mechanisms. Using species distribution models, we show that the Atlas Long‐legged Buzzard expands northward following climatic suitability, whereas African vultures reach Europe despite low climatic favourability through socially mediated ...
A.‐R. Muñoz +3 more
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Estudios Geográficos, 2020 El Sahel ha experimentado graves condiciones de sequía desde la década de 1970, mientras que en África Occidental las sequías extremas se han producido con mayor frecuencia en los últimos años.
Carlos Germano Ferreira Costa
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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The Impact of Migration on Age Structure Conducive to Human Development Across the Urban Hierarchy
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract A larger working‐age population supports economic and social development, and many developing countries are currently benefiting from this demographic window. However, internal migration—often age‐selective—can create subnational inequalities by redistributing working‐age individuals from less developed areas to cities in search of employment ...
Wenxiu Du +2 more
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