Overview
- Operational and Integrated tools for impact assessment
- Understanding of agriculture and sustainable development at a range of spatial scales (farm, regional, European and global)
- Based on the input from key scientists in Europe, working together on integrated tools for sustainable impact assessment, and with a background in agronomy, landscape ecology, economy, environment, geography and political science. The work is based on the input from around 150 scientists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Indicators and concepts in practice
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Advancements in modelling, data and software
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Use and extensions of integrated assessment modelling
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About this book
Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:
1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;
2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;
3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental and Agricultural Modelling:
Book Subtitle: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment
Editors: Floor M. Brouwer, Martin K. Ittersum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3619-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3618-6Published: 05 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9051-3Published: 29 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3619-3Published: 05 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 322
Topics: Agriculture, Behavioral Sciences, Plant Sciences, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Soil Science & Conservation, Agricultural Economics