Landscape change in the multi-functional countryside: A biographical analysis of farmer decision-making in the English High Weald

Landscape Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-364

  Bohnet, Iris ^a   Potter, Clive ^a   Simmons, Eunice ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Farmer decison making; Landscape change; Multifunctionality

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FARMERS ATTITUDE; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RURAL PLANNING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0346973016     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0142639032000150112     Document Type: Article

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