Studying the Logone floodplain, Cameroon, as a coupled human and natural systemFootnote^§

§ This article is based on a paper presented at the Afrideltas conference ‘Contemporary Evolution of African Floodplains and Deltas’, held 27–30 May 2014, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and is part of a suite of papers from the conference, guest-edited by S Duvail and DW Nyingi

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