Integrated assessment of agricultural policies with dynamic land use change modelling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 2153-2166

  van Delden, Hedwig ^a   Stuczynski, Tomasz ^b   Ciaian, Pavel ^c,d   Paracchini, Maria Luisa ^d   Hurkens, Jelle ^a   Lopatka, Artur ^b   Shi, Yu e ^a   Prieto, Oscar Gomez ^d,e   Calvo, Silvia ^d,f   van Vliet, Jasper ^a   Vanhout, Roel ^a  

^a Research Institute for Knowledge Systems   (Netherlands)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Common Agricultural Policy; Decision Support System; Geonamica; Integrated assessment; Land use change; LUMOCAP; Model integration; Policy support

Indexed keywords

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; LAND-USE CHANGE; MODEL INTEGRATION; POLICY SUPPORT;

AGRICULTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL LAW; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS;

LAND USE;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; EUROPEAN UNION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY STRATEGY; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955674192     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.03.023     Document Type: Article

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