Landscape changes and environmental quality: The evolution of land vulnerability and potential resilience to degradation in Italy

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1223-1233

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Tombolini, Ilaria ^a   Perini, Luigi ^a   Ferrara, Agostino ^a  

^a CRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite index; Italy; Land degradation; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891146041     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0437-3     Document Type: Article

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