Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Frederik Lerouge, Kurt Sannen, Hubert Gulinck and Liesbet Vranken ()

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 50-59

Abstract: Urbanization pressure increases the demand on remaining open spaces to deliver food and biomass, as well as other ecosystem services, but it is often paired with a reduced capacity to deliver these services. This calls for an integrated and innovative use of the remaining space.

Keywords: Bioproductive land; Land management; Ecosystem services; Land sharing vs sparing; Multifunctional land use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.11.015

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