Review Article
An Agent-Based Reasoning of Impacts of Regional Climate Changes on Land Use Changes in the Three-River Headwaters Region of China
Table 1
The factors that impact the agents’ behaviors.
| Categories | Variables | Impacts on behaviors |
| Climate | Temperature | Different climatic conditions determine the agents’ land use practices; for example, mild climate is suitable for cropping, pasturing, and so forth. | Precipitation |
| Economy | Initial account | The amount of the agents’ account impacts their land use practice, such as investment, land bid, and cost control. | Nonagricultural income | Price |
| Bad events | Natural disasters | Weight of balancing the economy and nature. |
| Policy | GFG | The compensation can stimulate the agents to transform other land uses into grassland and forest land. | Nature reserve | Ban the agents’ land use practices in the core area. |
| Topography | Distance to water | The conversion area of grassland to cultivated land decreases with the increment of distance to water and slope. | Slope |
| Soil property
| Soil nitrogen | Agents are willing to keep the fertile land parcel as grassland. | Soil phosphorous | Soil potassium |
| Land use | Land use | The initial land use determines the results of next step. The land use type and area determine the probabilities of land use change. |
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