Assessment of visual impact induced by surface mining with reference to a case study located in Sardinia (Italy)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1485-1493

  Dentoni, Valentina ^a   Massacci, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Landscape alteration; Quarrying; Surface excavation; Surface mining; Visual impact assessment; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; OPEN PIT MINING; QUARRYING;

CHROMATIC CONTRAST; IMPACT INDICATORS; LANDSCAPE ALTERATION; MINING AND QUARRYING; POTENTIAL GROWTH; SURFACE EXCAVATION; VISUAL IMPACTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LANDSCAPE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUARRYING; TERRITORY;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

EID: 84874118253     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1994-3     Document Type: Article

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