Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us

Lance W. Robinson, Polly J. Ericksen, Sabrina Chesterman and Jeffrey S. Worden

Agricultural Systems, 2015, vol. 135, issue C, 133-140

Abstract: •We apply concepts from vulnerability and resilience to sustainable intensification in drylands.•We challenge the predominant “security-versus-intensification hypothesis”.•Some forms of intensification can increase vulnerability and are therefore unsustainable.•Agricultural intensity is not the inverse of extensivity.•Sustainable intensification intensifies the most extensive systems, as extensive systems.

Keywords: Drylands; Extensive systems; Resilience; Sustainable intensification; Vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2015.01.005

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