Exploring agricultural livelihood transitions with an agent-based virtual laboratory: global forces to local decision-making.

Rural populations are undergoing rapid changes in both their livelihoods and land uses, with associated impacts on ecosystems, global biogeochemistry, and climate change. A primary challenge is, thus, to explain these shifts in terms of the actors and processes operating within a variety of land sys...

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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) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3764159?pdf=render