Opportunities to improve impact, integration, and evaluation of land change models

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 452-457

  Brown, Daniel G ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^b   Pontius, Robert Gilmore ^c   Lange, Mark D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; LAND COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; VALUATION;

EID: 84884708399     PISSN: 18773435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2013.07.012     Document Type: Review

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