Evaluation of environmental degradation in northern Ethiopia using GIS to integrate vegetation, geomorphological, erosion and socio-economic factors

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 91, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 313-325

  Feoli, Enrico ^a   Vuerich, Laura Gallizia ^a   Zerihun, Woldu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation; Classification; Data integration; Degradation; Ethiopia; Fuzzy set analysis; GIS; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; PLANNING METHOD; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOIL EROSION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0036712444     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00236-5     Document Type: Article

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