Land cover change or land-use intensification: Simulating land system change with a global-scale land change model

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3648-3667

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

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Global model; Integrated assessment models; Land change; Land systems; Livestock

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL MODEL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND CHANGE; LAND SYSTEMS; LIVESTOCK; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; GLOBAL MODEL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND CHANGE; LAND SYSTEMS; LIVESTOCK;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84887427919     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12331     Document Type: Article

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