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Modeling Social Systems and Their Interaction with the Environment: A View from Geography

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There is a long tradition of attempts to explain the pattern and dynamics of the human use of land and resources. A range of abstractions and computer simulations derived from theory and empirical data—models in the broadest sense—have been used to describe agricultural and industrial use and misuse of the environment.

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Liverman, D. (1994). Modeling Social Systems and Their Interaction with the Environment: A View from Geography. In: Groffman, P.M., Likens, G.E. (eds) Integrated Regional Models. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6447-4_5

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