Modeling land-use decision behavior with Bayesian belief networks

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Aalders, Inge ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Land cover; Land use

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MODELING; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 50149114337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02362-130116     Document Type: Article

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