Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us
• 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 t...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Elsevier
2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56636 |
| Summary: | • 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 . |
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