Socio-economic driving forces of land-use change in Kunshan, the Yangtze River Delta economic area of China

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-364

  Long, Hualou ^a,b   Tang, Guoping ^c   Li, Xiubin ^a   Heilig, Gerhard K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Driving forces; Land management measures; Land use change; The Yangtze River Delta; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN GROWTH;

CHINA; DRIVING FORCES; LAND MANAGEMENT MEASURE; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LANDUSE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT MEASURES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA; THE YANGTZE RIVER DELTA; URBANIZATION;

PIXELS;

LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAND USE; POLICY; POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU; KUNSHAN; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 33846901859     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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