A geospatial approach to assessing soil erosion in a watershed by integrating socio-economic determinants and the RUSLE model

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 321-342

  Bhandari, Krishna P ^a   Aryal, Jagannath ^b   Darnsawasdi, Rotchanatch ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multiple regression analysis; RUSLE; Socio economic variables (or determinants); Soil conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914818193     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1321-2     Document Type: Article

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