Integrated assessment of cropping patterns under different policy scenarios in Quzhou County, North China Plain

Land Use Policy

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-139

  Pan, Ying ^a   Yu, Zhenrong ^b   Holst, Jirko ^c   Doluschitz, Reiner ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop systems; Government policy; Integrated assessment; Land use; North China Plain

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROPPING PRACTICE; LAND USE; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; HEBEI; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; QUZHOU;

EID: 84901412622     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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