Agent-based modeling of hunting and subsistence agriculture on indigenous lands: Understanding interactions between social and ecological systems

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-127

  Iwamura, Takuya ^a,b   Lambin, Eric F ^b   Silvius, Kirsten M ^c   Luzar, Jeffrey B ^a   Fragoso, José M V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Amazon; Biodiversity; Human and natural systems; Indigenous people; Land use change; Socio ecological systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAND USE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AMAZON; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LAND-USE CHANGE; NATURAL SYSTEMS; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST CLEARANCE; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE;

AMAZONIA; GUYANA; RUPUNUNI; UPPER TAKUTU-UPPER ESSEQUIBO;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84902377057     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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