The Relative Importance of Socioeconomic and Environmental Variables in Explaining Land Change in Bolivia, 2001-2010

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 778-807

  Redo, Daniel J ^a   Aide, T Mitchell ^a   Clark, Matthew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; driving forces; land change; MODIS; Random Forest (RF) classification and regression

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING; MODIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; VEGETATION;

ANDES; BENI; BOLIVIA; PANDO; SANTA CRUZ [BOLIVIA];

EID: 84863524545     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.678036     Document Type: Article

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