Land and farming system dynamics and their drivers in the Mediterranean Basin

Land Use Policy

Volumn 75, Issue , 2018, Pages 702-710

  Debolini, Marta ^a   Marraccini, Elisa ^b   Dubeuf, Jean Paul ^c   Geijzendorffer, Ilse R ^d   Guerra, Carlos ^e,f   Simon, Marian ^g   Targetti, Stefano ^h   Napoléone, Claude ⁱ  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle   (France)

^c INRA SAD   (France)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^e GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ INRA Ecodeveloppement   (France)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Agricultural systems; Case studies; Farm trajectories; Intensification; Land use changes; Mediterranean agriculture; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; FARMING SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TRAJECTORY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 85040630528     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.010     Document Type: Article

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