Ecosystem service tradeoff between traditional and modern agriculture: A case study in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 743-752

  Zhang, Dan ^a,b   Min, Qingwen ^a   Liu, Moucheng ^a   Cheng, Shengkui ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

benefit and cost analysis (BCA); ecosystem dis services (EDS); ecosystem services (ES); rice monoculture; rice fish agriculture; traditional agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868150425     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-011-0385-4     Document Type: Article

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