Soil bio- and eco-engineering in China: past experience and future priorities

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-257

  Stokes, Alexia ^a   Sotir, Robbin ^b   Chen, Walter ^c   Ghestem, Murielle ^a  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b Robbin B Sotir and Associates Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Erosion; Grain for green; Landslides; NFPP; SLCP

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349119460     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.07.008     Document Type: Editorial

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