The causes of land-use and land-cover change: Moving beyond the myths

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 261-269

  Lambin, Eric F ^a   Turner, B L ^b   Geist, Helmut J ^a   Agbola, Samuel B ^c   Angelsen, Arild ^d   Bruce, John W ^e   Coomes, Oliver T ^f   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^g   Fischer, Günther ^h   Folke, Carl ⁱ   George, P S ^j   Homewood, Katherine ^k   Imbernon, Jacques ^l   Leemans, Rik ^m   Li, Xiubin ⁿ   Moran, Emilio F ^o   Mortimore, Michael ^p   Ramakrishnan, P S ^q   Richards, John F ^r   Skånes, Helle ⁱ   Steffen, Will ^s   Stone, Glenn D ^t   Svedin, Uno ^u   Veldkamp, Tom A ^v   Vogel, Coleen ^w   Xu, Jianchu ^x   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^h INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l CIRAD   (France)

^m NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^o INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p African Drylands Research   (United Kingdom)

^q JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^r DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^t WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research   (Sweden)

^v WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^w UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^x KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION PRESSURE; POVERTY;

EID: 18244386525     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-3780(01)00007-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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