Patterns and causes of land change: Empirical results and conceptual considerations derived from a case study in the Swabian Alb, Germany

Land Use Policy

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 192-203

  Bieling, Claudia ^a   Plieninger, Tobias ^b,c   Schaich, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Forest transition; Human agency; Marginal grassland; Social ecological resilience; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GIS; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; SWABIAN ALB;

EID: 84879508453     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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