Indicators for assessing the environmental impacts of land use change across Europe

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 305-324

  Petit, Sandrine ^a   Vinther, Finn P ^b   Verkerk, Pieter J ^c   Firbank, Les G ^a   Halberg, Niels ^b   Dalgaard, Tommy ^b   Kjeldsen, Chris ^b   Lindner, Marcus ^c   Zudin, Sergey ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

DPSIR; Environmental indicators; impact issue; Land use; modelling; sectoral model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889875213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78648-1_16     Document Type: Chapter

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