An integrated agro-economic and agro-ecological methodology for land use planning and policy analysis

ITC Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 87-103

  Mohamed, AbuBakr AbdelAziz ^a   Sharifi, Mohammed Ali ^a   Van Keulen, Herman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Farm aggregation and mapping; GIS; Integrated land use system; Land use planning and policy analysis; Land use policy scenarios

Indexed keywords

EID: 14344271520     PISSN: 03032434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2434(00)85003-5     Document Type: Article

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