Global cost of land degradation

Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement - A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 117-165

  Nkonya, Ephraim ^a   Anderson, Weston ^b   Kato, Edward ^a   Koo, Jawoo ^a   Mirzabaev, Alisher ^c   Von Braun, Joachim ^c   Meyer, Stefan ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Global cost; Land degradation; Land use cover change; Total economic value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957397484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19168-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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