Metrics and Indices for Sustainable Social-Ecological Landscapes

Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 381-389

  McCormick, Ronald J ^a  

^a Sokio Systems   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptual model (CM), depicting ecological and socioeconomic relationships among components of landscape and potential stressors from human activities; Social ecological landscape and conceptual models and indicators, addressing source of ultimate means to that end; Sustainable social ecological landscapes metrics and indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953763835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470593028.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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