Rural sustainability under threat in Zimbabwe - Simulation of future land use/cover changes in the Bindura district based on the Markov-cellular automata model

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-447

  Kamusoko, Courage ^a   Aniya, Masamu ^a   Adi, Bongo ^a   Manjoro, Munyaradzi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Land use cover change; Markov cellular automata model; Multi objective land allocation (MOLA); Multicriteria evaluation (MCE); Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MARKOV CHAIN; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RURAL AREA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

AFRICA; BINDURA; MASHONALAND CENTRAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 67649229517     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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