Environmental damage: Distinguishing human from geophysical causes

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-11

  Brookfield, Harold ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental damage; Environmental disaster; Erosion; Irrigation; Salinization

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER;

EID: 0033512981     PISSN: 14642867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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