The importance of uncertainties in scenario analyses - A study on future ecosystem service delivery in Flanders

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 553, Issue , 2016, Pages 504-518

  Landuyt, Dries ^a,b   Broekx, Steven ^b   Engelen, Guy ^b   Uljee, Inge ^b   Van der Meulen, Maarten ^b   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Cellular automata; Coupled component model; Land use change; Uncertainty propagation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT MODEL; LAND USE ALLOCATION; LAND USE CHANGE MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SERVICE PROVISION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK; BELGIUM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE DELIVERY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE DELIVERY MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE MODEL; PREDICTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; URBANIZATION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 84959355118     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.098     Document Type: Article

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