LandUseQuantifieR

This package is an (adapted) R implementation of the land use quantification approach from Hughes et al. 2018; The package calculates the required area of land for a given number of people, mainly based on their diet. Further information how to use the packge are found in the vignettes. Various nutritional information are collected as data objects within the package (see additional notes).

Reference:

Hughes RE, Weiberg E, Bonnier A, Finné M and Kaplan JO (2018) Quantifying Land Use in Past Societies from Cultural Practice and Archaeological Data. Land 7(1): 9: doi:10.3390/land7010009.

Empirical Data used in the package

The package builds upon empirical data on caloric density as well as plant productivity. Below is the list of references for these data (the list of full references is also supplied in the references.txt and references.bib respectively, that is shipped with the package)

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