The impacts on illegal farmland conversion of adopting remote sensing technology for land inspection in China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4426-4451

  Zhong, Taiyang ^a   Huang, Xianjin ^a   Ye, Lifang ^a   Scott, Steffanie ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Deterrent effects; Farmland preservation; Illegal land use

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECONOMETRICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATE ROLE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

CHINA;

EID: 84905403707     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6074426     Document Type: Article

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