Complex Adaptive Systems, soil degradation and land sensitivity to desertification: A multivariate assessment of Italian agro-forest landscape

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 521-522, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 235-245

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Mavrakis, Anastasios ^b   Colantoni, Andrea ^c   Mancino, Giuseppe ^d   Ferrara, Agostino ^d  

^a Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricultura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria ^*  (Italy)

^b PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Desertification; Indicators; Italy; Land sensitivity; Soil degradation; Sustainable land management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); LAND USE; SOILS;

COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DESERTIFICATION; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; ITALY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AGROFORESTRY; DESERTIFICATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL DEGRADATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

ITALY;

EID: 84928748466     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.094     Document Type: Article

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