Analysis of incentive schemes for biodiversity using a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 809-816

  Polhill, J Gary ^a   Gimona, Alessandro ^a   Gotts, Nicholas M ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Biodiversity; Land use; Nonlinearity; Policy

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; GOVERNMENT INCENTIVE; INCENTIVE SCHEMES; INCREASING FUNCTIONS; INPUT COSTS; LAND MANAGERS; LAND-USE CHANGE; NON-LINEARITY; PRICE VARIABILITY; TIPPING POINT; TWO-DIMENSION;

AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 84858633704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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