Monitoring land use/land cover transformations from 1945 to 2007 in two peri-urban mountainous areas of Athens metropolitan area, Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 262-278

  Mallinis, Giorgos ^a   Koutsias, Nikos ^b   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intensity analysis; Landscape change; Mediterranean areas; Protected areas; Socioeconomic factors; Systematic transitions

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CROPS; ECONOMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

INTENSITY ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; PROTECTED AREAS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

URBAN GROWTH;

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERIURBAN AREA; PROTECTED AREA; SHRUBLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WOODLAND;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GREECE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TIME; AGRICULTURE; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE; PARNITHA; PENTELI MOUNTAIN;

AGRICULTURE; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREECE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84901198015     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.129     Document Type: Article

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