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Environmental and agricultural modelling : integrated approaches for policy impact assessment

Title
Environmental and agricultural modelling : integrated approaches for policy impact assessment / Floor M. Brouwer, Martin van Ittersum, editors.
Publication
Dordrecht ; London : Springer, ©2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Brouwer, Floor.
  • Ittersum, M. K. van (Martin K.)
Description
xxiv, 322 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
Summary
Agriculture faces increasingly the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. The volume reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options.
Alternative Title
Environmental and agricultural modeling
Subject
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Simulation methods
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects
  • Sustainable agriculture > Planning > Simulation methods
  • environmental impact statements
  • Agriculture
  • Effets sur l'environnement
  • Evaluation
  • Modèles
  • Agriculture multifonctionnelle
  • Politique agricole
  • Aspects économiques
  • Agriculture durable
  • Landwirtschaft
  • Agrarpolitik
  • Nachhaltigkeit
  • Simulation
  • Modellierung
  • Umweltpolitik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Assessment of multifunctionality and jointness of production -- 3. The institutional dimension in policy assessment -- 4. A component-based framework for simulating agricultural production and externalities -- 5. A generic farming system simulator -- 6. Visualising changes in agricultural landscapes -- 7. A biophysical typology in agri-environmental modelling -- 8. The use of regional typologies in the assessment of farms' performance -- 9. A Web-based software system for model integration in impact assessments of agricultural and environmental policies -- 10. Evaluating integrated assessment tools for policy support -- 11. A comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as integrated modelling systems -- 12. Science-policy interfaces in impact assessment procedures -- 13. Economic principles of monetary valuation in evaluation studies.
ISBN
  • 9789048136186
  • 9048136180
  • 9048136199
  • 9789048136193
LCCN
2009943042
OCLC
  • ocn455831339
  • 455831339
  • SCSB-9217111
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library