Environmental history: A piece in the puzzle for establishing plans for environmental management

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2794-2800

  Renberg, Ingemar ^a   Bigler, Christian ^a   Richard Bindler, ^a   Matilda Norberg, ^a   Johan Rydberg, ^a   Ulf Segerstrom ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acidification; Environmental planning and management; Eutrophication; Liming; Nature conservation; Palaeoecology; Pollution; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAKES;

'CURRENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LIMING; NATURAL FACTORS; PALAEOECOLOGY; SOCIETAL FACTORS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

EUTROPHICATION;

ACIDIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUTROPHICATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAKE SEDIMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 67349089026     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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