This article discusses the evolution of participatory methods and their benefits and pitfalls in contributing to land use and land cover change (LULCC) analyses. Participation has become a practical means of developing a more complete assessment of societal change by bringing local people’s narra...
Smucker, T.
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Campbell, D.J.
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Olson, J.
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Wangui, Elizabeth Edna
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[Contemporary challenges of participatory field research for land use change analyses: examples from Kenya]
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Contemporary challenges of participatory field research for land use change analyses: examples from Kenya
Pijanowski, B.C.
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Washington-Ottombre, C.
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Campbell, D.J.
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Olson, J.
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Moore, N.
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Alexandridis, K.
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[Pluralistic modeling approaches to simulating climate-land change interactions in East Africa]
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Pluralistic modeling approaches to simulating climate-land change interactions in East Africa
We present an integrated methodology composed of a role-playing game on land adjudication from which we extract narrative and spatially explicit drivers of land-use decisions. We show how geographic information systems (GIS), qualitative decision-matrix analyses, a simple rule-based model using m...
Washington-Ottombre, C.
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Pijanowski, B.C.
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Campbell, D.J.
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Olson, J.
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Maitima, J.
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Musili, A.
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Kibaki, T.
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Kaburu, H.
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Hayombe, P.
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Owango, E.
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Irigia, B.
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Gichere, S.
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Mwangi, A.
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[Using a role-playing game to inform the development of land-use models for the study of a complex socio-ecological system]
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Using a role-playing game to inform the development of land-use models for the study of a complex socio-ecological system
The questions of how land use change affects climate, and how climate change affects land use, require examination of societal and environmental systems across space at multiple scales, from the global climate to regional vegetative dynamics to local decision making by farmers and herders. It als...
Olson, J.M.
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Alagarswamy, G.
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Andresen, J.A.
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Campbell, D.J.
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Davis, A.Y.
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Jianjun, Ge
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Huebner, M.
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Lofgren, B.M.
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Lusch, D.P.
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Moore, N.J.
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Pijanowski, B.C.
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Jiaguo, Qi
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Torbick, N.M.
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Wang, S.
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[Integrating diverse methods to understand climate-land interactions in East Africa]
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Integrating diverse methods to understand climate-land interactions in East Africa