Urbanization and impacts on agricultural land in China

The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 42-49

  Deng, Xiangzheng ^a,b  

^a Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 85097125765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315849256-13     Document Type: Chapter

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