Conserving the land: The resilience of riparian wetlands and river channels by a fuzzy inference system

Sustainability Science

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 267-272

  Mah, Darrien Yau Seng ^a   Bustami, Rosmina Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Disappearing wetlands; Indicators; Natural landscape; Nature conservation; Properly functioning condition; River management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863324671     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-011-0146-0     Document Type: Article

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