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Describing Land Use Change in Multidisciplinary Analyses
| Author: |
Kline, Jeffrey D. |
| Date: |
2006 |
| Periodical: |
Resources for the Future |
| Abstract: |
Economists increasingly face opportunities to collaborate with ecologists and other scientists in multidisciplinary research involving landscape-level analyses of socioeconomic and ecological processes. A common goal of such analyses is to describe potential changes in ecosystem processes and conditions resulting from forest policies and management actions addressing timber, wildlife, and wildfire objectives. In particular, land use economists often are called upon to describe potential future land use changes that are likely to influence the effectiveness and outcomes of policies and management actions of interest. This typically involves developing statistical spatial empirical models describing land use changes and projecting future land use change scenarios for integration with other models describing socioeconomic and ecological processes. |
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