How a socio-ecological metabolism approach can help to advance our understanding of changes in land-use intensity

Ecological Economics

Volumn 76, Issue , 2012, Pages 8-14

  Erb, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global land use and cover change; Industrial metabolism; Land use intensification; Land use transitions; Socio ecological metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858339471     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.02.005     Document Type: Note

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