A Land System representation for global assessments and land-use modeling

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3125-3148

  van Asselen, Sanneke ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global; Human environment interactions; Land cover; Land system; Land change models; Spatial determinants

Indexed keywords

LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING; MODELING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865865892     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02759.x     Document Type: Article

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