Structural change of Agricultural land use intensity and its regional disparity in China

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 545-556

  Chen, Yuqi ^a,b   Li, Xiubin ^a   Tian, Yujun ^a,b   Tan, Minghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Capital intensity; China; Labor intensity; Labor saving input; Yield increasing input

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350379583     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0545-7     Document Type: Article

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