Multipurpose greenway planning for changing cities: A framework integrating priorities and a least-cost path model

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Teng, Mingjun ^a   Wu, Changguang ^a   Zhou, Zhixiang ^a   Lord, Elizabeth ^a   Zheng, Zhongming ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bureau of Urban Utilities and Landscaping of Wuhan Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

Greenway; Kernel density method; Least cost path model; Multipurpose planning; Priority landscape conservation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; REMOTE SENSING;

ECOLOGICAL SECURITY; GREENWAYS; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; KERNEL DENSITY; LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION; LEAST COST PATH; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; GIS; GREENSPACE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIORITIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TOWN PLANNING;

CHINA; HUBEI; WUHAN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052687934     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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