Indicators to identify the agricultural pressures on environmental functions and their use in the development of agri-environmental measures

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-196

  Lütz, Michael ^a   Felici, Francesco ^b  

^a Saxon Academy of Sciences   (Germany)

^b Urban Economics Real Estate Market and Housing Policy   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agri environmental measures; Driving forces; Impacts; Monitoring; Pressure indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349486065     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-008-0061-9     Document Type: Article

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