Research on the environmental dimensions of human migration has made important strides
in recent years. However, findings have been spread across multiple disciplines with wide …

Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly recognized as valuable tools in modelling
human-environmental systems, but challenges and critics remain. One pressing challenge …

We review agent-based models (ABM) of human migration with respect to their decision-
making rules. The most prominent behavioural theories used as decision rules are the …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

During the past decades, land use land cover change (LUCC) has taken place around most
Chinese cities at unprecedented rates. During this process, many rural lands, such as …

Over the last two decades, globally coastal areas have urbanized rapidly due to various
socioeconomic and demographic driving forces. However, urban expansion in towns and …

The last decade has seen a remarkable increase in the number of modeling tools available
to examine future land-use and land-cover (LULC) change. Integrated modeling …

Land cover is an important descriptor of the earth's terrestrial surface. It is also crucial to
determine the biophysical processes in global environmental change. Land-use change …

Land use and land cover change (LULC) is an essential component for the monitoring
environmental change and managing natural resources in areas of high natural and cultural …

In the megadiverse tropical mountain forest in the Andes of southern Ecuador, a global
biodiversity hotspot, the use of fire to clear land for cattle ranching is leading to the invasion …