TY - JOUR
T1 - Land use in the southern Yucatán peninsular region of Mexico
T2 - Scenarios of population and institutional change
AU - Manson, Steven
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - Land-use and land-cover change, human activity that results in altered land-use systems and surface features, defines the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of communities around the globe. It is a key response to global environmental change in addition to being both a key cause and medium of this change. This article examines an application of the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region Integrated Assessment (SYPRIA), a scenario-based spatially explicit model designed to examine and project land use in Mexico. SYPRIA combines Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with agent-based modeling, cellular modeling, and genetic programming. The application examined here explores the effects on land-use and land-cover projections of scenarios that rely on varying assumptions pertaining to population growth, land-use trends, role of agrarian technology, and effects of resource institutions. This work also highlights the importance of understanding the many factors influencing land use, particularly population, different production systems, and the contextual nature of resource institutions in determining the nature of land use.
AB - Land-use and land-cover change, human activity that results in altered land-use systems and surface features, defines the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of communities around the globe. It is a key response to global environmental change in addition to being both a key cause and medium of this change. This article examines an application of the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region Integrated Assessment (SYPRIA), a scenario-based spatially explicit model designed to examine and project land use in Mexico. SYPRIA combines Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with agent-based modeling, cellular modeling, and genetic programming. The application examined here explores the effects on land-use and land-cover projections of scenarios that rely on varying assumptions pertaining to population growth, land-use trends, role of agrarian technology, and effects of resource institutions. This work also highlights the importance of understanding the many factors influencing land use, particularly population, different production systems, and the contextual nature of resource institutions in determining the nature of land use.
KW - Agent-based model
KW - Genetic program
KW - Land-use and land-cover change
KW - Multicriteria evaluation
KW - Symbolic regression
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.01.009
DO - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.01.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646486867
SN - 0198-9715
VL - 30
SP - 230
EP - 253
JO - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
JF - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
IS - 3
ER -