Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Changing Environments: By Bojie Fu and Mark Stafford Smith, 2024, Springer, Singapore. 424 pages, Open Access. ISBN 978-981-99-9374-1

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The author declares that he has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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