Spatially and temporally varying associations between temporary outmigration and natural resource availability in resource-dependent rural communities in South Africa: A modeling framework

Applied Geography

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 559-568

  Leyk, Stefan ^a   Maclaurin, Galen J ^a   Hunter, Lori M ^a,c   Nawrotzki, Raphael ^a   Twine, Wayne ^b   Collinson, Mark ^c   Erasmus, Barend ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agincourt; Demographic surveillance; Migration models; Outmigration environment associations; Scale; Spatial non stationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873256067     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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