How do individual farmers' objectives influence the evaluation of rangeland management strategies under a variable climate?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 483-493

  Jakoby, Oliver ^a,b   Quaas, Martin F ^c   Müller, Birgit ^a   Baumgärtner, Stefan ^d   Frank, Karin ^a,e,f  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agro ecology; Climate change; Ecological economic modelling; Livestock; Risk management; Rotational grazing; Semi arid rangelands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGROECOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FARMING SYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; POLICY MAKING; RANGELAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84896390803     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12216     Document Type: Article

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