What makes green cities unique? Examining the economic and political characteristics of the grey-to-green continuum

Land

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-147

  Runfola, Daniel Miller ^a,b   Hughes, Sara ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Governance; Lawns; Parks; Policy; Trees; Vegetative land cover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937810667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land3010131     Document Type: Article

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