Historical changes in the food and water supply systems of the New York city metropolitan area

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 363-380

  Swaney, Dennis P ^a   Santoro, Renee L ^a   Howarth, Robert W ^a   Hong, Bongghi ^a   Donaghy, Kieran P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Food consumption; Foodprint historical ecology; NANI; Net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs; New York; Nitrogen; Urban ecology; Urban studies foodshed; Water supply; Water use; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856551240     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0266-1     Document Type: Article

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