Landscape multifunctionality: A powerful concept to identify effects of environmental change

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-206

  Bolliger, Janine ^a   Bättig, Michèle ^b   Gallati, Justus ^c   Kläy, Andreas ^d   Stauffacher, Michael ^c   Kienast, Felix ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Econcept AG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental change assessments; Landscape multifunctionality; Regional environmental change

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952040080     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0185-6     Document Type: Article

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