Changing rural landscapes along the border of austria and the czech republic between 1952 and 2009: Roles of political, socioeconomic and environmental factors

Applied Geography

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-98

  Sklenicka, Petr ^a   Šímová, Petra ^a   Hrdinová, Kateřina ^a   Salek, Miroslav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agriculture land; Land cover changes; Land use policy; Landscape heterogeneity; Landscape metrics; Landscape structure

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BORDER REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; POLITICS; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

AUSTRIA; CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84891385760     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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