Land use/land cover change and statistical modelling of cultivated land change drivers in Nigeria

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 247-259

  Arowolo, Aisha Olushola ^a,b,c   Deng, Xiangzheng ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cultivated land expansion; Determinants; Land use intensity; Logistic regression; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025104441     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1186-5     Document Type: Article

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