Farmer-specific relationships between land use change and landscape factors: Introducing agents in empirical land use modelling

Land Use Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 809-817

  Bakker, Martha M ^a   van Doorn, Anne M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Alentejo; Farmers; Land abandonment; Land use change; Marginal areas; Portugal; Regression

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AFFORESTATION; ARABLE LAND; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODELING; SOIL QUALITY;

ALENTEJO; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 60749117431     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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