Monitoring Sensitivity to Land Degradation and Desertification with the Environmentally Sensitive Area Index: The Case of Lesvos Island

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1562-1573

  Symeonakis, Elias ^a   Karathanasis, Nikolaos ^b   Koukoulas, Sotirios ^b   Panagopoulos, George ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c TEI of Western Greece ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

desertification; environmentally sensitive area; GIS; land degradation; MEDALUS; Mediterranean; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COPYRIGHTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS; LAND DEGRADATION; MEDALUS; MEDITERRANEAN;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84897349785     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2285     Document Type: Article

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