Fuzzy logic based global assessment of the marginality of agricultural land use

Climate Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-150

  Cassel Gintz, M A ^a   Ludeke M K B ^a   Petschel Held, G ^a   Reusswig, F ^a   Plochl M ^a   Lammel, G ^b   Schellnhuber, H J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fuzzy logic; Global assessment; Land use; Marginality; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FUZZY LOGIC; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; MARGINALITY INDEX;

EID: 0030815859     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr008135     Document Type: Article

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