Future landscapes: Managing within complexity

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 382-389

  Parrott, Lael ^a   Meyer, Wayne S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84865695084     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/110082     Document Type: Review

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