Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 879-897

  Entwisle, Barbara ^a   Rindfuss, Ronald R ^a   Walsh, Stephen J ^a   Page, Philip H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular Automata; Deforestation; Land use land cover change; Population distribution; Population growth; Spatial simulation; Thailand

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DEFORESTATION; FRONTIER REGION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

ASIA; BURIRAM; EURASIA; NANG RONG; NORTHEASTERN REGION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 39849101725     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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