Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
June 2018
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
lupj:S0264837717314023
Pages: 
10

Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters over highly heterogeneous regions. This article estimates spatially explicit land supply elasticities using gridded data for the American continent. These estimates reasonably reproduce changes in land use observed at different levels of geographical aggregation across the continent. Plugging our estimates in a previous analysis of the land-use effects of eliminating global unsustainable irrigation, reveals higher pressure to convert land in the ecoregions in the south of the continent that have experienced most rapid cropland expansion in the recent past.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Villoria, Nelson B.
Liu, Jing

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Land Use Policy is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information from the diverse range of disciplines and interest groups which must be combined to formulate effective land use policies.

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