Landscape Characterisation: The Living Landscapes Approach in the UK

Landscape Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 261-278

  Warnock, Steven ^a   Griffiths, Geoffrey ^b  

^a Landscape Matters   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Landscape character; mapping; planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937252895     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2013.870541     Document Type: Article

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