Metropolitan land-change science: A framework for research on tropical and subtropical forest recovery in city-regions

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-147

  Baptista, Sandra R ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

City region; Environment; Forest recovery; Meta analysis; Metropolitan region; Multiscale; Sustainability; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 70449659770     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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