Spatiotemporal land use modelling to assess land availability for energy crops - illustrated for Mozambique

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 859-874

  Van der Hilst, Floor ^a   Verstegen, Judith A ^b   Karssenberg, Derek ^b   Faaij, André P C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioenergy potentials; GIS; Land use change; Model; Mozambique; Spatiotemporal uncertainty modelling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOFUELS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BIOENERGY POTENTIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOZAMBIQUE; UNCERTAINTY MODELLING;

LAND USE;

EID: 84867352984     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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