The economic determinants of land degradation in developing countries

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 891-899

  Barbier, Edward B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC DETERMINANT; FOREST CLEARANCE; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MIGRATION;

EID: 0030794391     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0068     Document Type: Article

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