Integrated landscape approach: Closing the gap between theory and application

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1371-

  Bürgi, Matthias ^a   Ali, Panna ^b   Chowdhury, Afroza ^b   Heinimann, Andreas ^c   Hett, Cornelia ^c   Kienast, Felix ^a   Mondal, Manoranjan Kumar ^d   Upreti, Bishnu Raj ^e   Verburg, Peter H ^a,f  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b BANGLADESH RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d International Rice Research Institute IRRI   (Bangladesh)

^e Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies   (Nepal)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Indicators; Joint learning; Land change science; Modelling; Monitoring; SDGs; Stakeholder involvement; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 85026766528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9081371     Document Type: Article

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