Assessing the Practice and Challenges of Stream Restoration in Urbanized Environments of the USA

Geography Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 358-372

  Shoredits, Andreas S ^a   Clayton, Jordan A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; POLLUTANT; RUNOFF; STREAM; URBAN AREA; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878459351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12039     Document Type: Article

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