This paper presents an approach to modeling land-cover change as a function of land-use change. We argue that, in order to model the link between socio-economic change and changes in forest cover in a region that is experiencing residential and recreational development and agricultural abandonment,
Land Use – Land Cover Conversion, Regeneration and Degradation in the High Elevation Bolivian Andes
✍ Scribed by Jodi S. Brandt; Philip A. Townsend
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 657 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-2973
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