Integrating the diversity of farmers' decisions into studies of rural land-use change.

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 136-145

  Karali, Eleni ^a   Rounsevell, Mark D A ^a   Doherty, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Behaviour; Farmers; Land use decisions; Social sciences; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; EARTH (PLANET); LAND USE; RURAL AREAS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SURVEYS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BEHAVIOUR; FARMERS; LAND-USE DECISIONS; SWITZERLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84857404709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2011.05.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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