Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8349-8356

  Sayer, Jeffrey ^a   Sunderland, Terry ^b   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^c   Pfund, Jean Laurent ^d   Sheil, Douglas ^b,e,f   Meijaard, Erik ^b,g,h   Venter, Michelle ^a   Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni ^a   Day, Michael ^b   Garcia, Claude ^b,i   Van Oosten, Cora ^j   Buck, Louise E ^k  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Fauna Forests and Nature Service   (Switzerland)

^e MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^f SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Jalan Raya Petitenget 1000X   (Indonesia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁱ CIRAD   (France)

^j WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^k Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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Author keywords

Agriculture environment trade offs; Convention on Biological Diversity; Food security; Integrated development approaches; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; BUILDING; CONSENSUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE APPROACH; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIETY;

AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT TRADE OFFS; CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; FOOD SECURITY; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES; SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL;

EID: 84878155029     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210595110     Document Type: Review

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