A comparison of Land Use Change models: Challenges and future developments

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 183-193

  De Rosa, Michele ^a   Knudsen, Marie Trydeman ^a   Hermansen, John Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Causal Descriptive model; Economic Equilibrium Model; Land Use Change; Life Cycle Assessment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; WATER RESOURCES;

CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; DESCRIPTIVE MODEL; ECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; LAND USE CHANGE MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84951742191     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.11.097     Document Type: Review

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