TIM (Threat Identification Model) is a framework for the ex ante assessment of agricultural land management sustainability at the land unit scale that identifies sources of unsustainability within agricultural land management systems. The model explicitly links defined hazards to land productivity a
Assessing the sustainability of agriculture at the planning stage
โ Scribed by CS Smith; GT McDonald
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
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