Understanding deforestation in the southern Yucatán: Insights from a sub-regional, multi-temporal analysis

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-189

  Rueda, Ximena ^a  

^a Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Logistic regression; Southern Yucat n; Sub regional analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956171382     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0115-7     Document Type: Article

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