Sustainable smallholder intensification in global change? Pivotal spatial interactions, gendered livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-60

  Zimmerer, Karl S ^a   Carney, Judith A ^b   Vanek, Steven J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOOD SECURITY; GENDER; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND MANAGEMENT; SMALLHOLDER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84926645699     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2015.03.004     Document Type: Review

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