The environmental "risky" region: Identifying land degradation processes through integration of socio-economic and ecological indicators in a multivariate regionalization model

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 888-898

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Zitti, Marco ^b  

^a ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

^b CRA Central Office for Crop Ecology   (Italy)

Author keywords

"Risky" region; Indicators; Italy; Land degradation; Multivariate strategy

Indexed keywords

''RISKY'' REGION; INDICATORS; ITALY; LAND DEGRADATION; MULTIVARIATE STRATEGY;

AGRICULTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EROSION; LADDER NETWORKS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOILS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ABANDONED LAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND DEGRADATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOIL EROSION;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ITALY; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE REGIONALIZATION MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL CHANGE; SOIL EROSION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350304027     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9378-5     Document Type: Article

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