Modeling Spatially and Temporally Complex Land-Cover Change: The Case of Western HondurasFootnote*

*This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (SBR-9521918) as part of the ongoing research at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University. We thank Dr. Gerald Nelson for technical assistance in the estimation and presentation of model results and Laura Carlson for helpful GIS suggestions. We also acknowledge the useful comments and suggestions of three anonymous reviewers that have greatly improved the paper. Finally, we are grateful to Dr. Elinor Ostrom for her comments on earlier drafts.

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