Dynamic interactions between vegetation and land use in semi-arid Morocco: Using a Markov process for modeling rangelands under climate change

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 462-472

  Freier, Korbinian P ^a,b   Schneider, Uwe A ^b   Finckh, Manfred ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioeconomic land use modeling; Dynamic programming; Environmental Policy Impact Calculator (EPIC); Extensive grazing; Irrigation agriculture; Semi arid pastoralism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTORALISM; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; STAKEHOLDER;

MOROCCO;

EID: 79952360287     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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