Are urban areas endangering the availability of rainfed crop suitable land?

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 631-638

  Avellan, Tamara ^a   Meier, Jonas ^a   Mauser, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CALIFORNIA; EARTH'S SURFACE; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL SCALE; RAINFED CROP; URBAN AREAS; URBAN SPRAWL;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE PLANNING; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA;

MADISON; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84857513188     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.659353     Document Type: Article

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