Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1703-1716

  Baumann, Matthias ^a,b   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Avedian, Vahagn ^c,d   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Armed conflicts; Coarsened exact matching; Land use change; Landsat; Local and displaced land use change; Warfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947024979     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0728-3     Document Type: Article

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