Deconstructing and unpacking scientific controversies in intensification and sustainability: Why the tensions in concepts and values?

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-88

  Struik, P C ^a   Kuyper, T W ^a   Brussaard, L ^a   Leeuwis, C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PRODUCTION; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84904312915     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2014.10.002     Document Type: Review

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