The European Forest and Agriculture Optimisation Model -- EUFASOM

Uwe A. Schneider (), Juraj Balkovic, Stéphane De Cara (), Oskar Franklin, Steffen Fritz, Petr Havlik, Ingo Huck, Kerstin Jantke, Maarit Kallio, Florian Klaxner, Alexander Moiseyev, Michael Obersteiner, Ivie Ramos, Christine Schleupner, Erwin Schmid, Dagmar Schwab and Ratislav Skalsky

No FNU-156, Working Papers from Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University

Abstract: Land use is a key factor to social wellbeing and has become a major component in political negotiations. This paper describes the mathematical structure of the European Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model. The model represents simultaneously observed resource and technological heterogeneity, global commodity markets, and multiple environmental qualities. Land scarcity and land competition between traditional agriculture, forests, nature reserves, pastures, and bioenergy plantations is explicitly captured. Environmental change, technological progress, and policies can be investigated in parallel. The model is well-suited to estimate competitive economic potentials of land based mitigation, leakage, and synergies and trade-offs between multiple environmental objectives.

Keywords: Land Use Change Optimization; Resource Scarcity; Market Competition; Welfare Maximization; Bottom-up Partial Equilibrium Analysis; Agricultural Externality Mitigation; Forest Dynamics; Global Change Adaptation; Environmental Policy Simulation; Integrated Assessment; Mathematical Programming; GAMS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eec and nep-env
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