Land use change in a Mediterranean metropolitan region and its periphery: Assessment of conservation policies through CORINE land cover data and Markov models;Cambio en el uso del suelo en una región Mediterránea metropolitana y su periferia: Evaluación de las políticas de conservación mediante datos del CORINE land cover y modelos de Markov

Forest Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-328

  Ruiz Benito, P ^a,b   Cuevas, J A ^b,c   Bravo de la Parra, R ^b   Prieto, F ^b   Garcia del Barrio J M ^a,d   Zavala, M A ^a,b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^c Center for Environmental Research in the Region of Madrid   (Spain)

^d Universidad de Valladolid   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global change; Land use and land cover change; Protected areas and protection categories; Traditional and cultural land uses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860159734     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2010193-8604     Document Type: Article

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