Biodiversity and agriculture: Production frontiers as a framework for exploring trade-offs and evaluating policy

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 23, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-94

  Smith, F Patrick ^a   Gorddard, Russell ^a   House, Alan P N ^a   McIntyre, Sue ^a   Prober, Suzanne M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; Agro environmental policy; Biodiversity conservation; Production possibility frontier

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WILDLIFE;

EID: 84865057289     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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