Modeling the Impact of Urbanization on Land-Use Change in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia: An Integrated Cellular Automata–Markov Chain Approach

The fast-paced urbanization of recent decades entails that many regions are facing seemingly uncontrolled land-use changes (LUCs) that go hand in hand with a range of environmental and socio-economic challenges. In this paper, we use an integrated cellular automata–Markov chain (CA–MC) model to anal...

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Main Authors: Melaku Bogale Fitawok, Ben Derudder, Amare Sewnet Minale, Steven Van Passel, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/4/115