Modeling enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program by using agents within spatial decision support systems: An example from southern Illinois

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 821-834

  Sengupta, Raja ^a   Lant, Christopher ^b   Kraft, Steven ^b   Beaulieu, Jeffrey ^b   Peterson, William ^b   Loftus, Timothy ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MODELING; NATURE CONSERVATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29344470545     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b31193     Document Type: Article

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