Fifty Years on: Long-term Patterns of Land Sensitivity to Desertification in Italy

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 97-107

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Zitti, Marco ^a   Perini, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental indicators; ESAI; Geographical scale; Italy; Socioeconomic trends

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; LAND USE; MILITARY OPERATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ESAI; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE; ITALY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 84957658672     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2226     Document Type: Article

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