RETRACTED: Resilience Enhancing Characteristics of Land Eviction-Displaced Communities in Uganda’s Oil Exploration Areas

Joseph Ssekandi^1*, Mburu John¹, Wasonga Oliver¹, Laban Macopiyo¹, Charles Francis^2,3

¹Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
²Department of Plant Sciences (IPV), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
³Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, 279 Plant Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/ojapps.2017.79033                

Abstract

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Keywords

Resilience, Recovery, Vulnerability, Eviction

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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