Land use consequences of the evolution of cemeteries in the Bucharest Metropolitan Area

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1066-1082

  Niţǎ, Mihai Rǎzvan ^a   Iojǎ, Ioan Cristian ^a   Rozylowicz, Laurentiu ^a   Onose, Diana Andreea ^a   Tudor, Alina Constantina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bucharest Metropolitan Area; cemeteries; land use changes; peripheral land uses

Indexed keywords

CEMETERY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; PERIPHERAL REGION; SPATIAL DATA; SUSTAINABILITY;

BUCHAREST [BUCHAREST (ADS)]; BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; ROMANIA;

EID: 84900016591     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2013.815607     Document Type: Article

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