Modelling land use change across elevation gradients in district Swat, Pakistan

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 567-581

  Qasim, Muhammad ^a   Hubacek, Klaus ^b   Termansen, Mette ^c   Fleskens, Luuk ^d  

^a ABDUL WALI KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Deforestation; GIS; Land use change; Multiple logistic regression; Pakistan; Remote sensing; Spatial analysis; Swat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878551856     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-012-0395-1     Document Type: Article

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