Human impacts on the environment: Unpredictability and the primacy of place

Physical Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 321-332

  Phillips, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Landscape; Place; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS BURNING; GRAZING PRESSURE; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035739970     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2001.10642746     Document Type: Article

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