Integrating social science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Social dimensions of ecological change and ecological dimensions of social change

Ecosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-171

  Redman, Charles L ^a   Grove, J Morgan ^b   Kuby, Lauren H ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; Integration; Interdisciplinary; Long term ecological research; LTER; Multi scale; Phoenix; Social patterns and processes; Social ecological systems; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SOCIAL CHANGE;

PHOENIX;

EID: 1842763600     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-003-0215-z     Document Type: Review

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