Cross-site comparison of land-use decision-making and its consequences across land systems with a generalized agent-based model.

Local changes in land use result from the decisions and actions of land-users within land systems, which are structured by local and global environmental, economic, political, and cultural contexts. Such cross-scale causation presents a major challenge for developing a general understanding of how l...

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Main Authors: Nicholas R Magliocca, Daniel G Brown, Erle C Ellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906050?pdf=render