Thresholds of landscape change: A new tool to manage green infrastructure and social-economic development

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 729-743

  Liu, Wenping ^a   Holst, Jirko ^b   Yu, Zhenrong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Green infrastructure; Landscape change; Social economic development; Sustainable development; Threshold

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THRESHOLD;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; HAIDIAN;

EID: 84898057836     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0007-1     Document Type: Article

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