Tracking invasive land covers in India, or why our landscapes have never been modern

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 637-659

  Robbins, Paul ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Land use; Modernization; Poststructuralism; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LAND USE; MODERNIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

GODWAR; INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 0035787696     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00263     Document Type: Article

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