Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

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

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7242-7247

  Ceddia, Michele Graziano ^a   Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver ^b   Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio ^c   Sedlacek, Sabine ^a  

^a MODUL UNIVERSITY VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AMERICA;

DEFORESTATION; JEVONS PARADOX;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84901044584     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317967111     Document Type: Article

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