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The Nordeste or Northeast Brazil (NEB) has been a focus of major concern for governments, planners, social scientists and other experts over the last century, principally because of recurrent droughts and the poverty that affects the majority of the population in its semi-arid zone.
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© 1988 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and United Nations Environment Programme
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Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T. (1988). Introduction: Drought as a Policy and Planning Issue in Northeast Brazil. In: Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T. (eds) The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2965-4_11
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