Building on qualitative datasets and participatory processes to simulate land use change in a mountain watershed of Northwest Vietnam

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1454-1466

  Lippe, M ^a   Thai Minh, T ^a   Neef, A ^b   Hilger, T ^a   Hoffmann, V ^a   Lam, N T ^c   Cadisch, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Integrated assessment; Land use model; Soil fertility; Stakeholder knowledge

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; DATA SETS; GOODNESS OF FIT; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; LAND COVER MAPS; LAND USE MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LAND-USE CHANGE DYNAMICS; MANAGEMENT METHOD; MASKING EFFECT; MODEL OUTPUTS; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STAKEHOLDER KNOWLEDGE; TEST SCENARIO; UPLAND SOIL; VIET NAM;

FERTILIZERS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BASELINE CONDITIONS; DATA SET; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY; STAKEHOLDER; VILLAGE; WATERSHED;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84855489060     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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