Environmental indicators GIS of the Catalan coast

Journal of Coastal Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-191

  Brenner, Jorge ^a   Jiménez, José A ^a   Sardá, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalonia; Environmental indicators; Geographic information systems (GIS); Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM); Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862303242     PISSN: 14000350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11852-008-0024-9     Document Type: Article

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