Managing eastern North American woodlands in a cultural context

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 457-464

  Schmitt, David ^a   Suffling, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cultural landscape; Management; Ontario; Urbanization; Woodland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; WOOD;

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; URBANIZATION; WOODLAND;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; URBANIZATION; WILDERNESS AREA; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; WOOD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33750627111     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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