Strategies for landscape ecology: An application using cellular automata models

Progress in Planning

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 133-177

  Silva, Elisabete A ^a   Ahern, Jack ^b   Wileden, Jack ^b  

^a ROBINSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; CVCA; Integrated regional planning; Landscape ecological strategies; Lisbon; Metropolitan planning; Planning strategies; Porto; Portugal; SLEUTH

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LISBON; PORTO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56849117620     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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