Post-communist land use changes related to urban sprawl in the Romanian metropolitan areas

Human Geographies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-46

  Grigorescu, Ines ^a   Mitricǎ, Bianca ^a   Kucsicsa, Gheorghe ^a   Popovici, Elena Ana ^a   Dumitraşcu, Monica ^a   Cuculici, Roxana ^b  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Land use dynamics; Landscape challenges; Metropolitan areas; Post communism; Romania

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867548521     PISSN: 18436587     EISSN: 20672284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5719/hgeo.2012.61.35     Document Type: Article

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