Exploring the driving forces behind deforestation in the state of Mexico (Mexico) using geographically weighted regression

Applied Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 576-591

  Pineda Jaimes, Noel Bonfilio ^a   Bosque Sendra, Joaquín ^b   Gómez Delgado, Montserrat ^b   Franco Plata, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Explanatory factors; Geographically weighted regression; Mexico

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 77956652310     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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