Mapping transition potential with stakeholder- and policy-driven scenarios in Rotterdam City

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 630-643

  Larondelle, Neele ^a,b   Frantzeskaki, Niki ^c   Haase, Dagmar ^a,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Land use scenarios; Places for transition experiments; Rotterdam; Transition detection; Urban; Visions

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VISION;

LAND-USE SCENARIO; ROTTERDAM; TRANSITION DETECTION; TRANSITION EXPERIMENT; URBAN;

MAPPING;

COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSITION ZONE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND;

EID: 84964499649     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.028     Document Type: Article

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