Land use changes to cash crop plantations: Crop types, multilevel determinants and policy implications

Land Use Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 379-389

  Su, Shiliang ^a,b   Zhou, Xiangcheng ^a   Wan, Chen ^a   Li, Yunke ^a   Kong, Wenhan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING KEY LABORATORY OF URBAN SPATIAL INFORMATION ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Cash crop plantations; China; Determinants; Land use change; Multilevel analysis; Subtropical region

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; CASH CROPPING; CROP PLANT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

MORUS (PLANT);

EID: 84945939154     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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