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Farmland conversion, i.e., converting farmland into non-agricultural uses, is an unavoidable trend in global economic development (Fazal 2001; Tan et al. 2005; Bugri 2008). China is facing a relative shortage of farmland resources in its accelerating urbanization. Farmland conversion is closely related to national food security and ecological security, as well as sustainable land use. Therefore, it is of great importance to allocate farmland conversion quotas in a rational manner conforming to the principle of maximal spatial-temporal allocation efficiency, in which the total revenue derived from farmland conversion is maximized in terms of spatial and temporal allocation of land resources.
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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 40771198), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province, China (Grant no. 08JJ6023).
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Honghui, Z., Yongnian, Z., Rong, T., Zhenjiang, S. (2012). Simulating Spatio-Temporal Allocation of Farmland Conversion Quotas in China Using a Multi-Agent System. In: Geospatial Techniques in Urban Planning. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13559-0_3
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