Editorial: Integrated assessments of environmental change on the tibetan plateau

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sheng, Yongwei ^a   Yao, Tandong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 76149129071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045201     Document Type: Editorial

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