Exploratory landscape metrics for agricultural sustainability

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-108

  Vaz, Eric ^a,b   de Noronha, Teresa ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural land loss; Agricultural land use change; Geographical information systems; Landscape metrics; Sustainable agricultural development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893505283     PISSN: 21683565     EISSN: 21683573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2013.825829     Document Type: Article

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