150 years of environmental degradation and reclamation in the Copper Basin, Tennessee

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-21

  Mathews, Louise ^a   Harden, Carol ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAND MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

COPPER BASIN; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032823918     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.1999.0008     Document Type: Article

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