A prototype method to map the potential visual-amenity benefits of new farm woodlands

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-238

  van der Horst, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; FORESTRY POLICY; GIS; MAPPING; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646249942     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b31172     Document Type: Article

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