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Research Articles

Assessing the trends and drivers of land use land cover change in district Abbottabad lower Himalayan Region Pakistan

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Pages 10855-10870 | Received 28 Sep 2021, Accepted 06 Feb 2022, Published online: 25 Feb 2022

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