The monitoring of land-cover change and management across gradient landscapes in Africa

Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-209

  Gibbes, Cerian ^a   Cassidy, Lin ^b   Hartter, Joel ^c   Southworth, Jane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4780-7_8     Document Type: Chapter

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