Greenspaces, green structure, and green infrastructure planning

Urban Ecosystem Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 431-448

  Beer, Anne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Economic development; Environmental factors; Europe; Green infrastructure planning; Green structure; Urban greenspaces; Water management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85140938201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr55.c21     Document Type: Chapter

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