Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Katharina Helming, Paul Tabbush, Marta Pérez-Soba

      Pages 1-6

3. List of Authors

   1. List of Authors

      Pages 7-13

4. Sustainability Impact Assessment: concepts and approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Ex-ante Impact Assessments (IA) in the European Commission — an overview

      • Karen Tscherning, Hannes König, Birthe Schößer, Katharina Helming, Stefan Sieber

      Pages 17-33

   3. Impact Assessment in the European Commission in relation to Multifunctional Land Use

      • Paul Tabbush, Pia Frederiksen, David Edwards

      Pages 35-54

   4. An institutional analysis of land use modelling in the European Commission

      • Andreas Thiel, Bettina König

      Pages 55-75

   5. Ex ante impact assessment of land use changes in European regions — the SENSOR approach

      • Katharina Helming, Karen Tscherning, Bettina König, Stefan Sieber, Hubert Wiggering, Tom Kuhlman et al.

      Pages 77-105

   6. Transfer into decision support: The Sustainability Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT)

      • Stefan Sieber, Klaus Müller, Peter Verweij, Hördur Haraldsson, Katharina Fricke, Cesare Pacini et al.

      Pages 107-128

5. Scenario modelling of land use changes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Scenarios: Driving forces and policies

      • Tom Kuhlman

      Pages 131-157

   3. Cross sector land use modelling framework

      • Torbjörn Jansson, Martha Bakker, Baptiste Boitier, Arnaud Fougeyrollas, John Helming, Hans van Meijl et al.

      Pages 159-180

   4. Tourism geography in Europe

      • Thomas Sick Nielsen, Berit C. Kaae

      Pages 181-209

   5. Landscape level simulation of land use change

      • Peter H. Verburg, Martha Bakker, Koen P. Overmars, Igor Staritsky

      Pages 211-227

6. Spatial representation and data issues for European regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Regional socio-economic profiles for assessment of European land use related policies: the SENSOR experience

      • Vincent Briquel

      Pages 231-248

   3. A Spatial Regional Reference Framework for Sustainability Assessment in Europe

      • Christa Renetzeder, Michiel van Eupen, Sander Mücher, Thomas Wrbka

      Pages 249-268

   4. Requirements for data management and maintenance to support regional land use research

      • Henning Sten Hansen, Pia Viuf, Wolfgang Loibl, Jan Peters-Anders, Sergey Zudin, Jürgen Vogt

      Pages 269-290

7. European level indicator framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. An indicator framework for analysing sustainability impacts of land use change

      • Pia Frederiksen, Peter Kristensen

      Pages 293-304

There are many reasons why strategic intelligence is required to support policy decisions. These primarily stem from the nature of today's kno- edge society with two contrasting trends. On the one hand, there is a trend of increasing human intelligence in the economic, social and political s- tems. On the other hand, there is a trend towards dissolving certainties about the problems and solutions of today's society. Clearly, more inf- mation does not necessary imply more certainties on how to act. What is more, the same facts are often interpreted in markedly different ways: the same policy relevant information can – and often does – results in confli- ing framing of a problem by different stakeholders. This is mainly due to competing assumptions, rather then because of inconsistent facts. The- fore, it is not surprising that policy-makers are calling for strategic intel- gence to support their understanding of today's challenges, including the relevant aspects of science and technology, their impact and their possible future developments. Over the last 15 years, Europe has rapidly adopted the practice of dev- oping and using Impact Assessment (IA) tools to support decision-making. Formal procedures and guidance for IA are well established within the European Commission and in most EU Member States. The adoption of IA procedures alone, however, does not guarantee that every policy domain is actually using the full potential of these assessment tools in the preparation of policies and legislation.

• Impact Assessment
• Multfunctional Land Use
• agricultural science
• development
• rural development
• scenario analysis
• simulation
• sustainability
• sustainability indicator assessment
• sustainable development
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• ecotoxicology

• Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

  Katharina Helming

• ALTERRA, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Marta Pérez-Soba

• Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham Surrey, UK

  Paul Tabbush

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