Sprinkling: An approach to describe urbanization dynamics in Italy

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Romano, Bernardino ^a   Zullo, Francesco ^a   Fiorini, Lorena ^a   Ciabò, Serena ^a   Marucci, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Land take; Urban sprinkling; Urban rural pattern

Indexed keywords

LAND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH METHOD; STANDARD (REGULATION); TYPOLOGY; URBAN SPRAWL; URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION;

ITALY;

EID: 85011060305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9010097     Document Type: Article

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