Land Change (Systems) Science

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 168-180

  Turner, B L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advances in land change modelling matching those in remote sensing observations; Drivers of land use; Land as a coupled system; Land change science interdisciplinary field of study, explaining land use and land cover dynamics; Land changes magnitude, affecting function; Land use to land cover and environment; Observing monitoring land change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873302217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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