Assessing the land resource–food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Obersteiner, Michael ^a   Walsh, Brian ^a   Frank, Stefan ^a   Havlík, Petr ^a   Cantele, Matthew ^a   Liu, Junguo ^a,b   Palazzo, Amanda ^a   Herrero, Mario ^c   Lu, Yonglong ^d,e   Mosnier, Aline ^a   Valin, Hugo ^a   Riahi, Keywan ^a   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a   Van Vuuren, Detlef ^f,g  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environmental Program   (France)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION; GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT POLICY; POLICY COMBINATION; PRODUCTION POLICY; RESOURCE DEMANDS; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION;

PLANNING;

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD; HUMAN; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOOD; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85017472610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501499     Document Type: Article

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