A case study of land cover change (1950-2003) and runoff in a Mediterranean catchment

Applied Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 810-821

  Fox, Dennis M ^a   Witz, Emmanuelle ^a   Blanc, Violaine ^a   Soulié, Cécile ^a   Penalver Navarro, Marc ^a   Dervieux, Alain ^a  

^a University of Nice UMR 6012 ESPACE   (France)

Author keywords

Channel capacity; Channel management; Land cover; Land use; Runoff

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; RIVER BANK; RIVER CHANNEL; RUNOFF; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 80052867982     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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