Assessing urban fragmentation at regional scale using sprinkling indexes

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2018, Pages

  Saganeiti, Lucia ^a   Favale, Antonella ^a   Pilogallo, Angela ^a   Scorza, Francesco ^a   Murgante, Beniamino ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b Regional Environmental Observatory Research Foundation of Basilicata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basilicata region; Fragmentation; Urban sprawl; Urban sprinkling

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL PLANNING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION;

ITALY;

EID: 85053253442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10093274     Document Type: Article

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