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Articles

Conceptualising eco-violence: moving beyond the multiple labelling of water and agricultural resource conflicts in the Sahel

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Pages 2075-2090 | Received 06 Dec 2021, Accepted 05 May 2022, Published online: 15 Jun 2022

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