Importance of integrated approaches and perspectives

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 259-273

  Pickett, Steward T A ^a   Cadenasso, Mary L ^b   Groffman, Peter M ^a   Morgan Grove, J ^c  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore ecosystem tudy; Human ecosystem concept; Integrated approaches; Management motivation; Patch dynamics; Policymakers; Urban ecosystems; Watershed frameworks; Wild systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101479431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c14     Document Type: Chapter

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