Agricultural land retirement and slippage: Lessons from an Australian case study

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 206-226

  Fraser, Iain ^a   Waschik, Robert ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONSERVATION; ECONOMIC IMPACT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21444447458     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.2.206     Document Type: Article

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