Innovation, cooperation, and the perceived benefits and costs of sustainable agriculture practices

M Lubell, V Hillis, M Hoffman - Ecology and Society, 2011 - JSTOR
A central goal of most sustainable agriculture programs is to encourage growers to adopt
practices that jointly provide economic, environmental, and social benefits. Using surveys of …

Design of an integrated evaluation index for recreational beaches

O Cervantes, I Espejel - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2008 - Elsevier
An integrated index to evaluate recreational sand beaches (IBVI) was designed using
descriptive beach indicators (BI), beach user's perception (KI) and indicators of beach …

耕地生态安全评价研究展望

吴大放, 刘艳艳, 刘毅华, 姚漪颖, 梁达维 - 中国生态农业学报(中英文), 2015 - ecoagri.ac.cn
本文采用文献资料法和对比法从耕地生态安全研究阶段, 概念, 特征, 驱动因素, 评价尺度,
评价方法与技术, 评价指标体系, 模拟预测, 保护措施等方面对国内外耕地生态安全评价的主要 …

A watershed at a watershed: the potential for environmentally sensitive area protection in the upper San Pedro Drainage Basin (Mexico and USA)

F Steiner, J Blair, L McSherry, S Guhathakurta… - Landscape and urban …, 2000 - Elsevier
The watershed is advocated as an appropriate unit for ecological planning. Watersheds, or
river drainage basins, can be understood through an ecological chorography. The upper …

Rhizobacteria Associated with a Native Solanaceae Promote Plant Growth and Decrease the Effects of Fusarium oxysporum in Tomato

CS Delgado-Ramírez, R Hernández-Martínez… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria are often utilized to improve crop health and
productivity. Nevertheless, their positive effects can be hindered if they fail to withstand the …

Review of research on evaluating the ecological security of cultivated land

Y He, D Wu, Y Liu, H Zhu - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cultivated land provides fundamental land-related resources, and its ecological security is,
thus, an important means of protecting it. The ecological security of cultivated land has …

An Optimization Strategy for Provincial “Production–Living–Ecological” Spaces under the Guidance of Major Function-Oriented Zoning in China

S Bao, L Lu, J Zhi, J Li - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
The comprehensive evaluation of China's major function-oriented zoning, grounded in
scientific principles, has evolved into a nationwide initiative aimed at promoting regional …

Precipitation and topography modulate vegetation greenness in the mountains of Baja California, México

FJ Del-Toro-Guerrero, T Kretzschmar… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Vegetation greenness (normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI) showed significant
temporal and spatial correlations with precipitation and topography-derived features within …

Rapid assessment of sustainability in Mainland China

L Sun, J Ni, AGL Borthwick - Journal of environmental management, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents an approach for rapid assessment of sustainability for Mainland China
based on a multilayer index system. Efficient assessment is conducted with the basic …

A quantitative approach to land use planning using GIS–A case study of Chabahar County, Iran

HR Jahantigh, M Masoudi, P Jokar - European Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - ejes.cz
Land use planning aims to formulate activities, administer potential changes and prevent
incompatible changes. The aim of this studyis to prepare a land use plan for Chabahar …