A process-based land use/land cover change assessment on a mountainous area of Greece during 1945-2009: Signs of socio-economic drivers.

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  2017

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  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.161PMID 28249756
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