Desert ‘wastes’ of the #Maghreb : #desertification narratives in French colonial environmental history of North Africa
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1191/1474474004eu313oa
Founded on historical inaccuracies and environmental misunderstandings, this narrative helped to justify land expropriation, changes in land tenure, forest appropriation and the criminalization of traditional land use, all of which facilitated the colonial venture in the three Maghreb countries.
