Combining actor and pattern-oriented approaches in land use/cover research methods for the development of a discussion-support tool
Investigator
Diego Valbuena, Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
E-mail: diego.valbuena(at)wur.nl
Abstract
The aim of this PhD project is to merge actor and pattern-oriented approaches for the preliminary development of a discussion-support tool by combining multi-agent systems (actors) and spatial modelling (patterns). Specifically, human decisions will be represented by using an agent typology and landscape configuration by the application of landscape indices. In this way, LUCC at a regional scale will be simulated as the cumulative result of heterogeneous land-use decisions, which are in turn influenced by their spatial context.
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