Middle-range theories of land system change
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Land is a nexus for crucial societal and environmental challenges including food security, access to water, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Development of solutions to balance these tradeoffs and synergies is currently hindered by the lack of theories explaining the conditions under which different pathways of land change occur and lead to different outcomes, integratin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Environmental Change
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0959-3780
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006