The environmental implications of intensified land use in developing countries

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 1023-1033

  Tinker, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE CHANGE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030788514     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0080     Document Type: Article

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