Evaluation by policy makers of a procedure to describe perceived landscape openness

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-28

  Weitkamp, Gerd ^a   Van den Berg, Agnes E ^b   Bregt, Arnold K ^b   Van Lammeren, Ron J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GIS; Landscape openness; Policy evaluation; Policy making

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; LAND USE;

GROUP DECISION; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LANDSCAPE OPENNESS; MAKING PROCESS; PERCEPTION-BASED; POLICY EVALUATION; POLICY MAKERS; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE METHOD; QUANTITATIVE METHOD;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GIS; GUIDELINE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SAINT MARTIN (DUTCH);

EID: 80055014288     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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