Beyond 'land sparing versus land sharing': Environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 477-483

  Grau, Ricardo ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b,c   Macchi, Leandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBALIZATION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84884712390     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.06.001     Document Type: Review

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