Socioeconomic dimensions of changes in the agricultural landscape of the Mediterranean basin: A case study of the abandonment of cultivation terraces on Nisyros Island, Greece

Environmental Management

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 250-266

  Petanidou, Theodora ^a   Kizos, Thanasis ^a   Soulakellis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean islands; Agricultural landscape; Animal husbandry; GIS mapping; Land use change; Landscape elements; Population migration

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CULTIVATION TERRACES; LAND MANAGEMENT TOOLS; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FARMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL AREAS;

CULTIVATION;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREECE; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE; GREECE; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; DODECANESE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; NISYROS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 39149106439     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-007-9054-6     Document Type: Article

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