Urban Ecological Networks for Biodiversity Conservation in Cities

Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 251-277

  Hamid, Abdul Rahim ^a   Tan, Puay Yok ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Ecological network; Landscape planning; Patchiness index; Sustainable landscape; Urban biodiversity conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050626531     PISSN: 21982546     EISSN: 21982554     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4113-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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