Land degradation and geodiversity: Anthropogenic controls on environmental change

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 307-309

  Hudson, P F ^a,b   Inbar, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

COMLAND; Environmental change; Geodiversity; Geomorphology; Human impacts; Land degradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864915767     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2156     Document Type: Editorial

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