Land Use Simulation for Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. A Framework for European Land Use Simulation

   1. A Framework for European Land Use Simulation

      • John Stillwell, Henk Scholten

      Pages 1-11

3. Policy Perspectives, Driving Forces and Data Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The European Spatial Development Perspective: Process, Policies and Consensus

      • Peter Ungar

      Pages 15-23

   3. European Spatial Planning: National and Regional Perspectives

      • Hans ten Velden, John Stillwell

      Pages 25-36

   4. Agriculture, Forestry and Nature: Trends and Developments Across Europe

      • Arnold Bregt, Kees de Zeeuw

      Pages 37-44

   5. The Projection of Population, Households, Housing and Residential Land Use

      • John Stillwell, James Debenham

      Pages 45-64

   6. The Land Market: A Spatial Economic Perspective

      • Joost Buurman, Piet Rietveld, Henk Scholten

      Pages 65-82

   7. The Role of Remote Sensing Techniques for European Land Use Database Construction

      • Henk Kramer, Sander Mücher

      Pages 83-99

   8. Towards a European Spatial Metadata Infrastructure to Facilitate Land Use Planning

      • Joana Abreu, Henk Scholten

      Pages 101-111

4. Modelling Environmental and Human Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Land Cover Information for European Environmental Modelling

      • Jean-Paul Hettelingh, Maximilian Posch, Peter de Smet

      Pages 115-126

   3. Forecasting Global Climatic Change Impacts on Mediterranean Agricultural Land Use in the Twenty First Century

      • Stan Openshaw, Andy Turner

      Pages 127-141

   4. Demography, Economy and Urbanization: A Demo-Economic Regional Simulation Model

      • Leo van Wissen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Corina Huisman

      Pages 143-157

   5. Interregional Migration and Land Use Pressure

      • Beatrice Eiselt, Niela Giglioli, Robert Peckham

      Pages 159-170

5. Evaluation and Visualisation Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Towards a Sustainable Future of Cities in Europe: An Evaluation of Sustainable City Initiatives Using Multicriteria Decision Support Methods

      • Adele Finco, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 173-192

   3. A Methodology for the Analysis of Spatial Conflicts in Transport Policies: Overview and Applications

      • Euro Beinat

      Pages 193-210

   4. Virtual Reality and the Simulation of Europe’s Land Use in the Twenty First Century

      • António Câmara

      Pages 211-231

6. The Development of a European Land Use Simulation System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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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.

• Demography
• Evaluation
• development
• economics
• economy
• migration
• population
• simulation
• system

• School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK

  John Stillwell

• Department of Regional Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Henk Scholten

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