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

•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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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Robinson, Lance W. ; Ericksen, Polly J. ; Chesterman, Sabrina ; Worden, Jeffrey S.
Published in:	Agricultural Systems. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-521X. - Vol. 135.2015, C, p. 133-140
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Drylands \| Extensive systems \| Resilience \| Sustainable intensification \| Vulnerability

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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