Policy shifts influence the functional changes of the CNH systems on the Mongolian plateau

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Jiquan ^a   John, Ranjeet ^a   Shao, Changliang ^a   Fan, Yi ^a   Zhang, Yaoqi ^b   Amarjargal, Amartuvshin ^c   Brown, Daniel G ^d   Qi, Jiaguo ^a   Han, Juanjuan ^e   Lafortezza, Raffaele ^a,f   Dong, Gang ^g  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of the Humanities   (Mongolia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled natural and human system; Global change; Land use; Mongolia; Policy; SEM

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS; HUMAN SYSTEM; MONGOLIA; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATIONS;

AGRICULTURE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; LAND COVER; LAND RECLAMATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; POLICY REFORM; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VEGETATION INDEX; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84948405288     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/085003     Document Type: Article

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