Land Use Simulation for Europe (GeoJournal Library, 63)

ISBN 10: 1402002130 / ISBN 13: 9781402002137

Published by Springer, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Land Use Simulation for Europe (GeoJournal Library, 63)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402002130
• ISBN 13: 9781402002137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is to contextualise, explain and illustrate a new methodology for simulating land use change in different parts of Europe. It considers some of the more important causal factors and identifies state-of-the-art approaches to modelling human and environmental systems, and for evaluating and visualising altenative scenarios. The last part of the volume presents material from two case studies, one from The Netherlands and one from Portugal, of the implementation of a new simulation model called EuroScanner.
Audience: This work will be of interest to researchers and practioners whose work involves geography, simulation and modelling, environmental planning, spatial decision making, the methodology of social sciences, and economics.