The Green Belt as a European Ecological Network strengths and gaps

Kun Zhang
REVIEW AND GAPS: EUROPEAN ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS IN THE PAST 40 YEARS
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others. While ecological networks have already started to be integrated into official policy and
spatial planning it is still necessary to search more actively for sound theoretical foundations
and to look for more practical alternatives in the future.
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