Agent-based model simulations of future changes in migration flows for Burkina Faso

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Kniveton, Dominic ^a   Smith, Christopher ^a   Wood, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Climate change; Decision making; Human migration; Simulation; Theory of Planned Behaviour

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MIGRATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 82255179254     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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