Integrated assessment of agricultural policies with dynamic land use change modelling

Hedwig van Delden, Tomasz Stuczynski, Pavel Ciaian, Maria Luisa Paracchini, Jelle Hurkens, Artur Lopatka, Yu-e Shi, Oscar Gomez Prieto, Silvia Calvo, Jasper van Vliet and Roel Vanhout

Ecological Modelling, 2010, vol. 221, issue 18, 2153-2166

Abstract: With about half of its territory being farmed, agriculture is the main land use in the European Union (EU). As over 10% of the total EU manufacturing output comes from the agri-food sector, it also is an economic factor of great importance. Moreover, EU policy in this sector has far-reaching consequences ranging from the EU's status as a global trade partner to landscape preservation and development. The LUMOCAP Policy Support System is targeted towards policy makers in the European Commission (EC) and its Member States (MS) and aims to provide support in the field of sustainable agricultural and rural development. To this end it incorporates an integrated model with socio-economic and bio-physical processes, operating at different spatial scales. For supporting integrated assessment, a large number of policy levers is included as inputs for these models and outputs are transformed into policy-relevant social, economic and environmental indicators. The whole system is framed in a flexible, modular and easy to use software package that is useable for process experts and policy-analysts alike.

Keywords: Policy support; Integrated assessment; Common Agricultural Policy; Geonamica; Land use change; Model integration; Decision Support System; LUMOCAP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.03.023

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