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Is there Really Spare Land? A Critique of Estimates of Available Cultivable Land in Developing Countries
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“Even a precise map of the physical area of degraded land would significantly overestimate its potential by neglecting its myriad social, environmental, and political constraints (Lambin et al., 2013;Young, 1999).”
From Mapping the world's degraded lands (2015) · cites this paper as Young, 1999
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Metadata
- Authors
- Young, A.
- Affiliations
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Young, Anthony
- ORCID
- Young, Anthony
- Venue
- Environment Development and Sustainability
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-18
- ISSN
- 1387-585X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2975
- OpenAlex
- W1560923330
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 28.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Environment Development and Sustainability (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Keywords
- land balance, land use, food security, population growth, developing countries, land use change, food production capacity
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