... goes to all of my Vietnamese friends living in the Netherlands, but particularly to Hien-Nhu, Hieu-Lam, Kim-V.Anh, Phuong-Ha, Tu -An, Duy-Chi, Thang-Mai, Trung-Thanh, Ha-Huong, Nhung, Hanh, Long, ... Hofman. Arif Wismadi collected the socio-economic data for validating the model of land-use and land-cover changes (Chapter 4). Christian Loris collected the data and processed a part of them ... caused by the equilibrium biomass assumption. Thus, the Fox model is not useful with respect to its purpose as a predictor of the long-term behaviour of the system and to answer the what-if questions....