Environmental and socio-economic impacts of rubber cultivation in the Mekong region: Challenges for sustainable land use

CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hauser, Inga ^a   Martin, Konrad ^a   Germer, Jorn ^a   He, Pia ^a   Blagodatskiy, Sergey ^a   Liu, Hongxi ^a   Krauß, Manuel ^b   Rajaona, Arisoa ^a   Shi, Min ^c   Pelz, Sonna ^a   Langenberger, Gerhard ^a   Zhu, Chao Dong ^d   Cotter, Marc ^a   Stürz, Sabine ^a   Waibel, Hermann ^c   Steinmetz, Heidrun ^b   Wieprecht, Silke ^b   Fror, Oliver ^e   Ahlheim, Michael ^a   Aenis, Thomas ^f   Cadisch, Georg ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Intercropping; Land use change; Land use scenario; Livelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014011090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PAVSNNR201510027     Document Type: Review

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