Future land use and food security scenarios for the Guyuan district of remote western China

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 372-384

  Zhen, Lin ^a   Deng, Xiangzheng ^a   Wei, Yunjie ^a   Jiang, Qunou ^b   Lin, Yingzhi ^a   Helming, Katharina ^c   Wang, Chao ^a   König, Hannes Jochen ^c   Hu, Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics of L; Food security; Guyuan district; Land use patterns; North central China; Scenario analysis; Systems modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899545127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor1170-007     Document Type: Article

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