Rural Sustainability A Complex Systems Approach to Policy Analysis
This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR
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Qing Tian
Rural Sustainability A Complex Systems Approach to Policy Analysis
Qing Tian Computational Social Science Program Department of Computational and Data Sciences College of Science George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA
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