Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us

Journal Article
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Abstract

• 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 .

Citation

Robinson, L.W., Ericksen, P.J., Chesterman, S. and Worden, J.S. 2015. Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us. Agricultural Systems 135:133-140.

Authors

  • Robinson, Lance W.
  • Ericksen, Polly J.
  • Chesterman, Sabrina
  • Worden, J.S.

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