Environmental accounts for land cover: Their contribution to 'state of the environment' reporting

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 441-456

  Haines Young, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'State of the environment' reporting; Countryside Survey 1990; Environmental accounts; Land cover change; Natural resource accounts; Sustainability indicators

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND COVER; METHODOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033382113     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.00441.x     Document Type: Review

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