Coupled human-environment system approaches to desertification: Linking people to pixels

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-14

  Lambin, E F ^a   Geist, H ^b   Reynolds, J F ^c   Stafford Smith, D Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

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