Soil quality and landscape metrics as driving factors in a multi-criteria GIS procedure for peri-urban land use planning

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 743-750

  Borgogno Mondino, E ^a   Fabietti, G ^b   Ajmone Marsan, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

GIS; Multi Criteria Decision Analysis; Soil properties; Spatial indices; Urban landscape; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE; PERIURBAN AREA; SOIL QUALITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; TORINO [PIEDMONT];

EID: 84951784024     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.07.004     Document Type: Article

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