Farmers' Preferences for Future Agricultural Land Use Under the Consideration of Climate Change.
Cultural landscapes in Austria are multifunctional through their simultaneous support of productive, habitat, regulatory, social, and economic functions. This study investigates, if changing climatic conditions in Austria will lead to landscape change. Based on the assumption that farmers are the cr...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 446 - 465 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2016
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