Environmental deterioration in rural mexico: An examination of the concept

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 316-329

  Landa, Rosalva ^a   Meave, Jorge ^a   Carabias, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

And risk; Chronic; Components of; Damage; Ecosystem goods and services; Environmental alteration; Environmental deterioration; Environmental deterioration in rural Mexico; Environmental deterioration, analytical framework; La Montana region (Guerrero); Land degradation in developing countries; Land misuse; Mexico; Social economic factors in environmental degradation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; SOIL EROSION;

MEXICO, GUERRERO STATE, LA MONTANA;

EID: 0030616837     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0316:EDIRMA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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