Typology of cities based on city biodiversity index: Exploring biodiversity potentials and possible collaborations among Japanese cities

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 14371-14384

  Uchiyama, Yuta ^a   Hayashi, Kengo ^b   Kohsaka, Ryo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

City Biodiversity Index; GIS; Land cover; Land use mixture; Satoyama Index

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GIS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND COVER; LAND USE; POLICY STRATEGY; SUSTAINABILITY; TYPOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; URBAN AREA;

JAPAN;

EID: 84949293055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71014371     Document Type: Article

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