Socio-economics of alternative tillage systems

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 109-130

  Stonehouse, D Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmarital damage costs; Externalities; Full accounting; Net benefits to society; Tillage economics; Watercourse loadings

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; NO TILL; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; TILLAGE PRACTICES;

CANADA, ONTARIO;

EID: 0031472694     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(97)00037-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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