How do policies shape landscapes? Landscape change and its political driving forces in the Limmat Valley, Switzerland 1930-2000

Landscape Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-279

  Hersperger, Anna M ^a   Bürgi, Matthias ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Greening; Land use planning; Urban fringe; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

LIMMAT VALLEY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77953114158     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426391003743561     Document Type: Article

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