Processes and patterns of landscape change on a small Aegean island: The case of Sifnos, Greece

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-64

  Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^a   Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Agriculture; Juniperus phoenicea; Mediterranean; Polarization; Tourism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; EXPANSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAND USE; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOURISM; VEGETATION;

ABANDONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; JUNIPERUS PHOENICEA; LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; MEDITERRANEAN; SEMI-NATURAL VEGETATION; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

LANDFORMS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONIFEROUS TREE; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISLAND; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CYCLADAS; GREECE; SIFNOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS PHOENICEA;

EID: 78449266733     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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