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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Watershed Rehabilitation: A Case Study in Farta Woreda, South Gondar, Ethiopia

T.W. Yitbarek, Satishkumar Belliethathan and Masresha Fetene
Ecological Restoration, March 2010, 28 (1) 46-55; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.28.1.46
T.W. Yitbarek
Yitbarek T.W. is an ecologist working with the Environmental Society of Ethiopia as a coordinator and secretary-general; PO Box 34793, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 251/91-101-5570, .
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