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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Main Authors: Robinson, Lance W., Ericksen, Polly J., Chesterman, Sabrina, Worden, J.S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/56636
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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 .