Landholder profiling and typologies for natural resource-management policy and program support: Potential and constraints

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 481-492

  Emtage, Nick ^a   Herbohn, John ^a   Harrison, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Farmer surveys; Land management values; Landholder profiling; Landholder typologies

Indexed keywords

FARMING SYSTEMS; LAND MANAGEMENT VALUES; LANDHOLDER PROFILING; LANDHOLDER TYPOLOGIES;

AGRONOMY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CULTIVATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LAND USE;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

FARMING SYSTEM; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDHOLDING; NATURAL RESOURCE; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; TYPOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FARMING SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; LAND USE; METHODOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TILLAGE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548070818     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0359-z     Document Type: Review

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