An integrated assessment of landscape evolution, long-term climate variability, and land use in the Amudarya Prisarykamysh delta

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 363-381

  Tsvetsinskaya, Elena A ^a   Vainberg, Bella I ^b   Glushko, Elena V ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Integrated assessments; Landscape evolution; Landscape archaeological studies; Satellite and aerial photography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IRRIGATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING;

AMUDARYA-PRISARYKAMYSH DELTA; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 0036656779     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2001.0951     Document Type: Article

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