Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us
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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.
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• 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 .
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Lance W. Robinson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5224-8644
Polly Ericksen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-7691
Polly Ericksen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-7691
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