This paper describes three fundamental pitfalls or caveats of empirical modeling of land-use decision making in agent-based models for land-use/cover change. A case study in the villages of Jambi Province (Sumatra), Indonesia, is presented to demonstrate the construction of empirical decision-making models using utility functions while taking into account these caveats. Incorporating the decision process as an option to deal with the drawbacks of cross-sectional data is recommended to better specify agents' behavior in the decision-making models.
Publication year
2012
Authors
Villamor G B; Troitzsch K G; Vlek P L G; van Noordwijk, M.
Language
English
Keywords
decision making, land use
Geographic
Indonesia
