This paper aims at evaluating the impacts of climate change on land use patterns in Brazil. To this purpose, we specify and estimate an econometric land use model to assess how climate variables affect land allocation decisions according to three types of use: cropland, pasture and forestland. Based on the econometric model estimates, we then simulate how farmers will adapt their land use choic...

This paper traces the environmental and economic effects of a “Table field Fish pond” (TFFP) land use scheme in Lijin County in the Yellow River Delta of China with reference to the optimization of ecological-productive structures resulting from a land use / land cover change (LUCC) approach. “Table fieldFish pond” is an effective reconstructed land use system and eco-agricultural pattern to ch...

1 Land Use Science Group, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, [email protected] 2 School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, [email protected] [email protected] 3 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, [email protected] Abstract. This paper explores the potential of applyin...

Location analysis has so far been limited to spatial, and in some cases spatio-temporal, constraints. For example, the optimal site for a shopping center can be determined by taking the location of other centers and of potential customers into account, and factoring in transportation networks, as well as land use and zoning restrictions. Some solutions, like the relatively unknown but seminal w...

Ordinal optimization has emerged as an efficient technique for simulation and optimization, converging exponentially in many cases. In this paper, we present a new computing budget allocation approach that further enhances the efficiency of ordinal optimization. Our approach intelligently determines the best allocation of simulation trials or samples necessary to maximize the probability of ide...

Rebalancing water allocation between human consumptive uses and the environment in water catchments is a global challenge. This paper proposes a socio-hydrological water balance framework by partitioning catchment total evapotranspiration (ET) into ET for society and ET for natural ecological systems, and establishing the linkage between the changes of water balance and its social drivers and r...

Bioenergy is expected to become one of the key energy resources for global sustainable development. However, bioenergy cannot be infinite, because the land area available for biomass production is limited and a certain amount of biomass must be reserved for food and materials. Land management is a topic that has long been neglected in sustainable development of bioenergy although land is a limi...