Showing papers by "Alan Grainger published in 2003"
TL;DR: In this article, a two-zone national political economy model is outlined and illustrated by examples from the Philippines and Thailand to overcome the limitations of existing aggregated national deforestation models in explaining the impact of changes in agricultural technological on deforestation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new combined nominal-numerical classification system was proposed to map variation of biodiversity over 72,600 km2 of tropical rain forests using multiple characteristics using a combination of nominal and numerical classification.
Abstract: . Variation of biodiversity over 72 600 km2 of tropical rain forest was mapped by multiple characteristics using a new combined nominal–numerical classification system. Three hundred and sixty-nine tree genera were grouped into classes by eight taxonomic, geographical, phylogenetic and ecological characteristics. Each grid cell was assigned to a nominal biodiversity type by its dominant classes and classified numerically by its share of total variation in study area biodiversity. Differentiation of 0.5° cells by nominal classification was inferior to numerical classification, but improved at higher resolution. The nominal and numerical classifications were shown to have potential for complementary roles in conservation planning.
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