Land degradation: Socioeconomic and environmental causes and consequences in the eastern mediterranean

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 216-226

  Abu Hammad, A ^a   Tumeizi, A ^a  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Land degradation; Land use change; Mediterranean; Overgrazing; Palestine; Poverty; Urban expansion

Indexed keywords

LAND DEGRADATION; LAND-USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN; OVERGRAZING; PALESTINE; POVERTY; URBAN EXPANSION;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; EROSION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; OVERGRAZING; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION GROWTH; POVERTY; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PALESTINE;

EID: 84865959698     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1069     Document Type: Article

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