The carrying capacity imperative: Assessing regional carrying capacity methodologies for sustainable land-use planning

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1038-1045

  Lane, Murray ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Population; Resource depletion; Spatial planning; Sustainable land use

Indexed keywords

LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; RESOURCE DEPLETION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952878519     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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