Graying, greening and fragmentation in the rapidly expanding Indian city of Bangalore

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 400-406

  Nagendra, Harini ^a,b   Nagendran, Suparsh ^a   Paul, Somajita ^a   Pareeth, Sajid ^a  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land cover change; Reforestation; Urban institutions; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

REFORESTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN GROWTH;

FRAGMENTATION; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT; PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN INSTITUTIONS; VEGETATION CHANGE;

VEGETATION;

GREENSPACE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUNGER; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND MARKET; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLICY APPROACH; REFORESTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 84858281458     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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