Strategic green infrastructure planning and urban forestry

Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 179-193

  Lafortezza, Raffaele ^a,b   Pauleit, Stephan ^c   Hansen, Rieke ^c   Sanesi, Giovanni ^a   Davies, Clive ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85028290012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315627106     Document Type: Chapter

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