Impact assessment of land use changes using local knowledge for the provision of ecosystem services in northern Ghana, West Africa

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 103, Issue , 2019, Pages 156-172

  Koo, Hongmi ^a,b,c   Kleemann, Janina ^a,b,c   Fürst, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Deforestation; Ghana; Land use modeling; Participatory assessment; Stakeholder; Synergy; Trade off; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

GHANA; LAND USE MODELS; PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER; SYNERGY; TRADE OFF; URBANIZATION;

LAND USE;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LAND USE PLANNING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; SYNERGISM; TRADE-OFF; URBANIZATION;

GHANA;

EID: 85063950808     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.04.002     Document Type: Article

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