Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

Land Use Policy

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 483-498

  Hennig, Ernest I ^a   Schwick, Christian ^b   Soukup, Tomáš ^c   Orlitová, Erika ^c   Kienast, Felix ^b   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c GISAT and the European Centre on Urban Land and Soil systems ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

De sprawling strategies; Landscape metrics; NUTS 2 regions; Urban development; Weighted urban proliferation (WUP)

Indexed keywords

POLICY DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84942050090     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.08.001     Document Type: Article

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