Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 279-289

  Batterbury, S P J ^a   Bebbington, A J ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Environmental history; Political ecology; Relevance; Resource degradation; Scale

Indexed keywords

LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032730171     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199907/08)10:4<279::AID-LDR364>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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