Greening Brownfield Land

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Liveable Places from Problem Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 141-176

  Moffat, Andy ^a   Hutchings, Tony ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownfield land; Industrial activities; Landfill; Urban green space; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889391867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692110.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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