Low-impact agriculture requires urgent attention not greater caution: Response to Phalan and colleagues

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-326

  Wright, Hugh L ^a   Lake, Iain R ^a   Dolman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land sharing; Land sparing; Low impact agriculture; Rural livelihoods; Seminatural habitat; Wildlife friendly farming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864858459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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