Conversion, intensification, and abandonment: A human appropriation of net primary production approach to analyze historic land-use dynamics in New Zealand 1860-2005

Ecological Economics

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 201-208

  Fetzel, Tamara ^a   Gradwohl, Markus ^b   Erb, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomass; HANPP; Land use change; Land use efficiency; New Zealand; Social metabolism

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; METABOLISM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84890864294     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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