Balancing tradition and technology to sustain rockfall-protection forests in the Alps

Forest Snow and Landscape Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-98

  Dorren, Luuk K A ^a   Berger, Frédéric ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Protection forest; Rockfall protection forests; Traditional protection forest management

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MONTANE FOREST; NATURAL HAZARD; ROCKFALL; TECHNOLOGY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33745532887     PISSN: 14245108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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