Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets

GeoJournal

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-344

  Klein Goldewijk, Kees ^a   Ramankutty, Navin ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE; NITROGEN; WATER;

DATA SETS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

DATA REDUCTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 23644453278     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-004-5050-z     Document Type: Review

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