Landscapes of West Africa : a window on a changing world / Window on a changing world [editorial and production team: Comit�e Permanent Inter-�etats de Lutte contre la S�echeresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (USGS EROS) Center, University of Arizona, U.S. Agency for International Development/West Africa (USAID/WA)]. - x, 219 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 36 cm

"USAID, CILSS, USGS." Shipping list no.: 2017-0010-S. Also published in French as: Les paysages de l'Afrique de l'Ouest : une fen�etre sur un monde en pleine �evolution. CRDP Program record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-213) and index (215-219).

Chapter 1: West Africa's changing environment 1.1. Landscapes and physical geography -- 1.2. Approach to monitoring land resources -- 1.3. Drivers of land changes -- 1.4. Land productivity -- 1.5. Land use and land cover trends from 1975 to 2013 -- Chapter 2: Country profiles, land use and land cover, and trends 2.1. Benin -- 2.2. Burkina Faso -- 2.3. Cabo Verde -- 2.4. C�ote d'Ivoire -- 2.5. Gambia (The) -- 2.6. Ghana -- 2.7. Guinea -- 2.8. Guinea-Bissau -- 2.9. Liberia -- 2.10. Mali -- 2.11. Mauritania -- 2.12. Niger -- 2.13. Nigeria -- 2.14. Senegal -- 2.15. Sierra Leone -- 2.16. Chad -- 2.17. Togo.


Environmental degradation--Africa, West.
Land use--Africa, West--Pictorial works.
Land cover--Africa, West--Pictorial works.
Landscapes--Africa, West--Pictorial works.
Environmental protection--Africa, West.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental protection.
Land cover.
Land use.
Landscapes.


Africa, West--Environmental conditions.
Africa, West--Remote-sensing images.
Africa, West.


Pictorial works.
Remote-sensing images.

G2641.G4 / L36 2016

0900-I

ID 1.2:AF 8/2