Variations of urban greenness across urban structural units in Beijing, China

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 554-561

  Wang, Hua Feng ^a   Qiu, Jiang Xiao ^b   Breuste, Jürgen ^c   Ross Friedman, Cynthia ^d   Zhou, Wei Qi ^a   Wang, Xiao Ke ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Green spaces; Land cover; Land use; Urban structural unit

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GREENSPACE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MUSEUM; ORCHARD; URBAN AREA; WOODLAND;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84888066736     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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