Valuing environmental externalities from rice-wheat farming in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1436-1442

  Lv, Yao ^a   Gu, Shu zhong ^a   Guo, Dong mei ^b  

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

^b State Environmental Protection Administration   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environment; Evaluation; Externality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FARMING SYSTEM; FLOOD CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; RICE; VALUATION; WHEAT; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

CHINA; JIANGSU; YANGTZE RIVER; ZHENJIANG;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77953146310     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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