A Land System Science meta-analysis suggests we underestimate intensive land uses in land use change dynamics

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 191-204

  Sonter, L J ^a   Barrett, D J ^a,b   Moran, C J ^a   Soares Filho, B S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Land Change Science; Leximancer; LUC; mining; roads; text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926257777     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2013.871356     Document Type: Article

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