Effects of land markets on competition between innovators and imitators in land use: Results from FEARLUS-ELMM

Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 81-97

  Gary Polhill, J ^a   Parker, Dawn C ^b   Gotts, Nicholas M ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-522-1.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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