Putting meaning back into "sustainable intensification"

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 356-361

  Loos, Jacqueline ^a   Abson, David J ^a   Chappell, M Jahi ^b,c   Hanspach, Jan ^a   Mikulcak, Friederike ^a   Tichit, Muriel ^d   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EQUITY; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84905449800     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130157     Document Type: Review

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