Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land-change models

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-230

  Pontius Jr , Robert Gilmore ^a   Spencer, Joseph ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17744389464     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b31152     Document Type: Article

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