A fifty-year sustainability assessment of Italian agro-forest districts

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Recanatesi, Fabio ^a   Clemente, Matteo ^b   Grigoriadis, Efstathios ^c   Ranalli, Flavia ^d   Zitti, Marco ^d   Salvati, Luca ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Italian Council of Research in Agriculture   (Italy)

Author keywords

Desertification; Environmental indicators; Italy; Soil degradation; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DESERTIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SUSTAINABILITY; VULNERABILITY;

ITALY;

EID: 84956602521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8010032     Document Type: Article

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