Traditional Agrarian Landscape in the Mediterranean Mountains. A Regional and Local Factor Analysis in the Central Spanish Pyrenees

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1626-1640

  Lasanta, Teodoro ^a   Errea, María Paz ^a   Nadal Romero, Estela ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bench terraces; Central Pyrenees; field types; mountain agriculture landscape; shifting agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; RAIN; RURAL AREAS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; BENCH TERRACES; FIELD TYPES; MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAINS; MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE LANDSCAPE; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PYRENEES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GIS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRACE; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; VILLAGE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 85019221532     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2695     Document Type: Article

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