WTO agreement on agriculture: Potential consequences for agricultural production and landuse patterns in the Swiss lowlands

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-145

  Huber, Robert ^a   Lehmann, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GIS modelling.; Land use change; Mathematical programming model; WTO

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTION COST; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78650866056     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2009.10649603     Document Type: Article

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