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Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines.

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Published in Reg Environ Change on June 06, 2014

Authors

Nicholas R Magliocca1, Thomas K Rudel2, Peter H Verburg3, William J McConnell4, Ole Mertz5, Katharina Gerstner6, Andreas Heinimann7, Erle C Ellis8

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 211 Sondheim, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD USA ; The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, College Park, 1 Park Place, Annapolis, MD USA.
2: Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ USA.
3: Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, Manly Miles Building, Suite 115, 1405 South Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI USA.
5: Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 10, 1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
6: Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
7: Swiss National Centre of Research (NCCR) North-South, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 10, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
8: Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 211 Sondheim, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD USA.

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