Rates of landscape change at the northern fringe of the Swiss Alps: Historical and recent tendencies

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 127-136

  Schneeberger, Nina ^a   Bürgi, Matthias ^b   Kienast, P D Felix ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL ^*  (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Historical maps; Landscape history; Rate of landscape change; Transformation rate

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; URBAN PLANNING;

HISTORICAL MAPS; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; RATE OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TRANSFORMATION RATE;

LANDFORMS;

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; GIS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33847060905     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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