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Chapter Sixteen - Using environmental metrics to promote sustainability and resilience in agriculture

from Part II - Integrating biodiversity and building resilience into agricultural systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2019

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Jonathan R. B. Fisher  and
Peter Kareiva
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Sarah M. Gardner ,
Stephen J. Ramsden  and
Rosemary S. Hails
Sarah M. Gardner
Affiliation:
GardnerLoboAssociates
Stephen J. Ramsden
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
Rosemary S. Hails
Affiliation:
The National Trust
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Agricultural Resilience
Perspectives from Ecology and Economics
 , pp. 340 - 361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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