Driving forces and rates of landscape change as a promising combination for landscape change research-An application on the northern fringe of the Swiss Alps

Land Use Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 349-361

  Schneeberger, Nina ^a   Bürgi, Matthias ^b   Hersperger, Anna M ^b   Ewald, K C ^c  

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

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Landscape change; Landscape history; Period actor model; Transformation rates

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DECISION MAKING; INNOVATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33847101802     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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