Assessing the impacts of economic and climate changes on land-use in mountain regions: A spatial dynamic modeling approach

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 149, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-63

  Briner, Simon ^a   Elkin, Ché ^a   Huber, Robert ^b   Grêt Regamey, Adrienne ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture and forest ecosystem goods and services; Climate change; Land use change; Mathematical programming model; Scenario assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CROP YIELD; DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84855813608     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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