Evaluating the ecological sustainability of Austrian agricultural landscapes-the SINUS approach

Land Use Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 307-320

  Peterseil, Johannes ^a   Wrbka, Thomas ^a   Plutzar, Christoph ^a   Schmitzberger, Ingrid ^a   Kiss, Andrea ^a   Szerencsits, Erich ^b   Reiter, Karl ^a   Schneider, Werner ^c   Suppan, Franz ^c   Beissmann, Helmut ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ecological sustainability; Fuzzy set theory; Hemerobiotic state; Land cover; Landscape assessment; Landscape structure; Ordinal regression model; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 2642536106     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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