Transitions to agroecological farming systems in the Mississippi River Basin: toward an integrated socioecological analysis

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 621-635

  Blesh, Jennifer ^a   Wolf, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Competencies; Innovation; Iowa; Resource based view; Sustainable transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911968177     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: 15728366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-014-9517-3     Document Type: Article

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