Land Use Simulation for Europe [electronic resource] /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Stillwell, John. editor., Scholten, Henk. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Subjects:	Geography., System theory., Environmental management., Economics., Management science., Social sciences., Geography, general., Economics, general., Systems Theory, Control., Environmental Management., Methodology of the Social Sciences.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0466-4
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