Forest cover changes in North Korea since the 1980s

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 347-354

  Kang, Sangjun ^a   Choi, Woonsup ^b  

^a Gyeonggi Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Fragmentation; Green infrastructure; Morphological spatial pattern analysis; Network analysis; North Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893085359     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0497-4     Document Type: Article

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