Resilience-based governance in rural landscapes: Experiments with agri-environment schemes using a spatially explicit agent-based model

Land Use Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 934-943

  Schouten, Marleen ^a   Opdam, Paul ^a   Polman, Nico ^a   Westerhof, Eugène ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Agri environment; Governance; Resilience; Rural landscapes

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MODELING; RURAL LANDSCAPE; RURAL PLANNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84864402416     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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