Projected Landscape Impacts from Oil and Gas Development Scenarios in the Permian Basin, USA.
Projecting landscape impacts from energy development is essential to land management decisions. We forecast landscape alteration resulting from oil and gas well-pad construction across the economically important Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, USA, by projecting current landscape trends throu...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 348 - 364 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Sep2020
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