Assessment of land degradation susceptibility by scenario analysis: A case study in Southern Tuscany, Italy

Geomorphology

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 120-129

  Märker, Michael ^a   Angeli, Luca ^b   Bottai, Lorenzo ^b   Costantini, Roberto ^b   Ferrari, Raffaella ^b   Innocenti, Lucia ^b   Siciliano, Giuseppina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b LaMMA Consortium   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land use change; RUSLE; Scenario analysis; Soil erosion; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EROSIVITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GROSSETO [TUSCANY]; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

EID: 35748941659     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.12.020     Document Type: Article

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