Index of Landscape Disharmony (ILDH) as a new tool combining the aesthetic and ecological approach to landscape assessment

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 166-180

  Sowińska Świerkosz, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Landscape disharmony; Landscape evaluation; Landscape harmony; Landscape indicators; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES; ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS; LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENTS; LANDSCAPE DISHARMONY; LANDSCAPE EVALUATION; LANDSCAPE HARMONY; LANDSCAPE INDICATORS; QUANTITATIVE INDICES;

ECOLOGY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ESTHETICS; INDEX METHOD; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84976340262     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.05.038     Document Type: Article

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