The role of farmers' objectives in current farm practices and adaptation preferences: A case study in Flevoland, the Netherlands

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1463-1478

  Mandryk, Maryia ^a   Reidsma, Pytrik ^a   Kanellopoulos, Argyris ^a   Groot, Jeroen C J ^a   van Ittersum, Martin K ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Arable farm; Multi criteria decision making; Multi objective optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904606047     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0589-9     Document Type: Article

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