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JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 2-3, Pages 151-173Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2011.558602
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agent-based model; agricultural innovation; inequality; forest transition
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This article examines the transition from shifting cultivation to rubber production for a study area in northern Laos PDR using an agent-based model of land-cover change. A primary objective of the model was to assess changes in household-level inequality with the transition from shifting cultivation to rubber adoption. A secondary objective was to develop explanations for the rate of rubber adoption in the study area. We fit the model to historical land-cover data and land use histories developed from household-level field interviews to reproduce the land use decisions of smallholders over time. The model results indicate an increase in household inequality over time as a function of the variable rate of rubber adoption over time.
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