Livestock subsidies and rangeland degradation in central Crete

Ecology and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Lorent, Hugues ^a   Sonnenschein, Ruth ^b   Tsiourlis, Georgios M ^c   Hostert, Patrick ^b   Lambin, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Fisheries Research Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Common agricultural policy; Crete; Desertification; Sheep and goats; Subsidies; Vegetation cover trend

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; COMMODITY PRICE; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; DESERTIFICATION; DRYLAND FARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; GOAT; LAND DEGRADATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; RANGELAND; SHEEP; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; VEGETATION COVER;

CRETE; GREECE;

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 73849137131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03229-140241     Document Type: Article

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