Land degradation and economic conditions of agricultural households in a marginal region of northern Greece

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 198-209

  Lorent, Hugues ^a   Evangelou, Christakis ^d   Stellmes, Marion ^b   Hill, Joachim ^b   Papanastasis, Vasilios ^d   Tsiourlis, Georgios ^c   Roeder, Achim ^b   Lambin, Eric F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

desertification; drylands; Greece; land degradation; remote sensing; subsidies

Indexed keywords

CROP; DESERTIFICATION; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC POLICY; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; REMOTE SENSING; SUBSIDENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 57049114846     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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