Land use scenario modeling based on local knowledge for the provision of ecosystem services in northern Ghana

Land

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Koo, Hongmi ^a,b   Kleemann, Janina ^a,b   Fürst, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change impact; Land use change; Modeling; Participation; Planning; Stakeholder; Synergy; Trade off; Transdisciplinarity; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047860978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land7020059     Document Type: Article

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