Future landscapes of Switzerland: Risk areas for urbanisation and land abandonment

Applied Geography

Volumn 57, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-41

  Price, Bronwyn ^a   Kienast, Felix ^a   Seidl, Irmi ^a   Ginzler, Christian ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^b   Bolliger, Janine ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dyna CLUE; Land use change; Modelling; Scenarios; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBALIZATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PASTURE; POLICY APPROACH; REGIONALIZATION; URBANIZATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84920126035     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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