Land use and watershed health in the United States

Land Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 214-239

  Hascic, Ivan ^a   Wu, Junjie ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745323889     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.82.2.214     Document Type: Article

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