Mapping land use competition in the rural-urban fringe and future perspectives on land policies: A case study of Meknès (Morocco)

Land Use Policy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 373-381

  Debolini, Marta ^a   Valette, Elodie ^b   François, Marie ^b   Chéry, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UMR TETIS   (France)

Author keywords

GIS MCDA; Land use planning; Peri urban areas; Spatial explicit indicators; Spatial multi criteria analysis; Vulnerability to urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DEVELOPING WORLD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MAPPING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PERIURBAN AREA; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TENURE SYSTEM; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84930630965     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.01.035     Document Type: Article

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