Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 221-242

  Ausubel, Jesse H ^a   Wernick, Iddo K ^a   Waggoner, Paul E ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND USE PLANNING;

EID: 84874131887     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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