Land degradation, poverty and marginality

Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 181-202

  Gerber, Nicolas ^a   Nkonya, Ephraim ^b   Von Braun, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural productivity; Ecosystem services; Environmental Kuznets curve; Global indicators; Land degradation; Land management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939517909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7061-4_12     Document Type: Chapter

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