An agent-based model of agricultural innovation, land-cover change and household inequality: The transition from Swidden cultivation to rubber plantations in Laos PDR

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 151-173

  Evans, Tom P ^a   Phanvilay, Khamla ^b,c   Fox, Jefferson ^b   Vogler, John ^b,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^c National University of Laos   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Agricultural innovation; Forest transition; Inequality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INNOVATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANTATION; RUBBER; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

LAOS;

EID: 79957473858     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2011.558602     Document Type: Article

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