A pragmatic approach for soil erosion risk assessment within policy hierarchies

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 997-1009

  Volk, Martin ^a   Möller, Markus ^b   Wurbs, Daniel ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Geoflux GbR ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Models; Processes; Scales; Soil erosion; Soil protection

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY APPROACH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

GERMANY; SAXONY-ANHALT;

EID: 77952882811     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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