Most of these location characteristics relate to the location directly, such as soil
characteristics and altitude. However, land management decisions for a certain location
are not always based on location specific characteristics alone. Conditions at other
levels, e.g., the household, community or administrative level can influence the decisions
as well. These factors are represented by accessibility measures, indicating the position
of the location relative to important regional facilities, such as the market and by the use
of spatially lagged variables. A spatially lagged measure of the population density
approximates the regionally population pressure for the location instead of only
representing the population living at the location itself.