A land-use systems approach to represent land-use dynamics at continental and global scales

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-79

  Letourneau, Aurélien ^a,b,d   Verburg, Peter H ^c   Stehfest, Elke ^a  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Global; IMAGE; Land use change; Land use intensification; Land use systems

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; GLOBAL; GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN INFLUENCES; HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMAGE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND COVER; LAND COVER DATASETS; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LAND SYSTEMS; LAND-COVER TYPES; LAND-USE CHANGE; LAND-USE SYSTEMS; LIVESTOCK DENSITY; MARKET PLACE; MODEL DYNAMICS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOPHYSICS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LIVESTOCK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PIXEL;

EID: 84858078734     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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