Spatiotemporal pattern and driving forces of arable land-use intensity in China: Toward sustainable land management using emergy analysis

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3504-3520

  Xie, Hualin ^a   Zou, Jinlang ^b   Jiang, Hailing ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Choi, Yongrok ^c  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arable land; Emergy; Food security; Land use intensity; Sustainable land management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; EMERGY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84904330637     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6063504     Document Type: Article

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