Fractals and Scale in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring

Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-40

  Lam, Nina Siu Ngan ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Environmental monitoring; Fractals; Scale; Science of scales

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SCALE; SCIENCE OF SCALES;

FRACTALS;

EID: 84953400730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999141.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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