Patterns and changes of land use and land-use efficiency in Africa 1980–2005: an analysis based on the human appropriation of net primary production framework

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1507-1520

  Fetzel, Tamara ^a   Niedertscheider, Maria ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^a,b   Krausmann, Fridolin ^a   Erb, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Biomass; HANPP; HANPP efficiency; Land use change; Land use efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947424601     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0891-1     Document Type: Article

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