SPA-LUCC: Developing land-use/cover scenarios in mountain landscapes

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-76

  Schirpke, Uta ^a   Leitinger, Georg ^a,b   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b   Tasser, Erich ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

GIS; Human environment system; Land use pattern; Landscape ecology; Spatial allocation model

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; FRANCE; GERMANY; ITALY; STUBAI VALLEY; SWITZERLAND; TYROL;

EID: 84867033570     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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