Social capital and social-ecological resilience in the Asteroussia Mountains, Southern Crete, Greece

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kizos, Thanasis ^a   Detsis, Vassilis ^b   Iosifides, Theodoros ^a   Metaxakis, Minas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete; Greece; Land degradation and desertification; Social ecological resilience; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; OVERGRAZING; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEMIARID REGION; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; ASTEROUSIA MOUNTAINS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE; IRAKLION [CRETE];

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84897542020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06208-190140     Document Type: Article

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