An integrated evaluation methodology to measure ecological and economic landscape states for territorial transformation scenarios: an application in Piedmont (Italy)

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 105, Issue , 2019, Pages 156-165

  Assumma, Vanessa ^a   Bottero, Marta ^a   Monaco, Roberto ^a   Soares, Ana Jacinta ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Decision making process; GIS; Indicators and indexes; Landscape ecology; Landscape economics

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED EVALUATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; SYSTEM OF INDICATORS;

ECOLOGY;

DECISION MAKING; GIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; TERRITORIAL PLANNING; VISUALIZATION;

ITALY; MONFERRATO; PIEDMONT [ITALY];

EID: 85066319809     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.04.071     Document Type: Article

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