Beyond land cover change: towards a new generation of land use models | Land Portal

Informações sobre recurso

Date of publication: 
Dezembro 2019
Resource Language: 
ISBN / Resource ID: 
MLRF:2643
Pages: 
77-85

Land use models play an important role in exploring future land change dynamics and are instrumental to support the integration of knowledge in land system science. However, only modest progress has been made in achieving these aims due to insufficient model evaluation and limited representation of the underlying socio-ecological processes. We discuss how land use models can better represent multi-scalar dynamics, human agency and demand-supply relations, and how we can achieve learning from model evaluation. By addressing these issues we outline pathways towards a new generation of land use models that allow not only the assessment of future land cover pattern changes, but also stimulate envisioning future land use by society to support debate on sustainability solutions and help design alternative solutions.

Autores e editores

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

Verburg, Peter H.
Alexander, Peter
Evans, Tom
Magliocca, Nicholas R.
Malek, Ziga
Rounsevell, Mark DA
Vliet, Jasper van

Publisher(s): 

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Provedor de dados

The purpose of the Mekong Land Research Forum online site is to provide structured access to published and unpublished research on land issues in the Mekong Region. It is based on the premise that debates and decisions around land governance can be enhanced by drawing on the considerable volume of research, documented experience and action-based reflection that is available.

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