Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services

Biological Conservation

Volumn 204, Issue , 2016, Pages 221-230

  Kennedy, Christina M ^a   Hawthorne, Peter L ^b   Miteva, Daniela A ^c   Baumgarten, Leandro ^a   Sochi, Kei ^a   Matsumoto, Marcelo ^a   Evans, Jeffrey S ^a   Polasky, Stephen ^b,b   Hamel, Perrine ^d   Vieira, Emerson M ^e   Develey, Pedro Ferreira ^f   Sekercioglu, Cagan H ^g,h   Davidson, Ana D ⁱ   Uhlhorn, Elizabeth M ^j   Kiesecker, Joseph ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^f BirdLife/SAVE Brasil   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^h KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Dow Construction Chemicals   (United States)

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Author keywords

Land use optimization; Land use policy; Production possibility frontier; Sustainable agriculture; Tropical conservation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CERRADO; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LAND USE PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BRAZIL;

AVES; BOS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 85027955496     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.039     Document Type: Article

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