Systems practice: Making the systems in farming systems research effective

Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 141-157

  Ison, Ray ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE; FARMING SYSTEM; SYSTEMS PRACTICES;

EID: 84948063830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4503-2_7     Document Type: Chapter

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