Can the UN Convention to Combat Desertification guide sustainable use of the world's soils?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Stringer, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; DESERTIFICATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 41849110238     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070060     Document Type: Review

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