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STATE OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEGRADATION IN MOROCCO AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT CONTROL

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Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue

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Severely stricken by successive periods of drought, Morocco has made desertification control, drought mitigation, and environment protection, in general, top priorities in its socio-economic development.

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  1. 1Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Rabat

    Abdellah Ouassou & Tayeb H. Amziane

  2. Direction des Aménagemnents Fonciers, MADR, Rabat

    Lahcen Lajouad

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  1. Abdellah Ouassou
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

    William G. Kepner

  2. Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desterficacion-CIDE, Valencia, Spain

    Jose L. Rubio

  3. Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, U.S.A.

    David A. Mouat

  4. NATO Public Diplomacy Division, Science Committee, Brussels, Belgium

    Fausto Pedrazzini

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Ouassou, A., Amziane, T., Lajouad, L. (2006). STATE OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEGRADATION IN MOROCCO AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT CONTROL. In: Kepner, W.G., Rubio, J.L., Mouat, D.A., Pedrazzini, F. (eds) Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue. NATO Security Through Science Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3760-0_10

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