Modelling land use change and environmental impact.
By A. Veldkamp, Peter H. Verburg. Journal of Environmental Management, 2004
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Land use change models are tools for understanding and explaining the causes and consequences of land use dynamics. Recently, new models, combining knowledge and tools from biophysical and socio-economic sciences, have become available. This has resulted in spatially explicit models focussed on patterns of change as well as agent-based models focused on the underlying decision processes. These developments improve the use of land use change models in environmental impact studies. This special issue documents these developments: (i) analysing the system properties in a biophysical and socio-economic context at multiple scales; (ii) integrating spatially explicit land use change models in integrated assessment models; (iii) visualising and quantifying the potential effects of land use change in trade-off curves, to support land users and policy makers in their decisions; and (iv) modelling of the actual decision making process with agent-based modelling. A new promising future development is the incorporation of dynamic feedbacks between changing land use and changing environmental conditions and vice versa. Unfortunately such dynamic feedbacks between the socio-economic and biophysical model components are still not or only partially operational in current models and are therefore the most important challenge for land use and environmental modellers.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change
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- Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) Change Detection in Wami River Basin, Tanzania (2019, background): “Moreover, to understand the aspects of changes in the human environment across space and time, numerous studies are required [49].”
- Urbanization, urban land expansion and environmental change in China (2014, background): “Land use and land cover change, as a consequence of rapid growth and urbanization can have environmental impacts on hydrologic, climatic and socio-economic systems (LeBlanc et al. 1997; Zhao et al. 2001; Veldkamp and Verburg 2004).”
- Modeling human decisions in coupled human and natural systems: Review of agent-based models (2012, background): “In 144 tandem with the above theoretical advancements, empirical support, especially data about human 145 systems, is considered essential in advancing our understanding of complex systems (Parker et al., 2003; 146 Veldkamp and Verburg, 2004).”