Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 118, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 93-108

  Gellrich, Mario ^a   Baur, Priska ^a   Koch, Barbara ^b   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster adjustment; Land use change; Logistic regression; Marginalisation; Multilevel data; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33751181878     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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