When and how to imitate your neighbours: Lessons from and for FEARLUS

JASSS

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Gotts, Nicholas M ^a   Polhill, J Gary ^a  

^a Macaulay Land Use Research Institute ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Imitation; Innovation; Land use; Spatio temporal heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349122620     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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