Environmental and Agricultural Modelling:: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment / Edition 1

by Floor M. Brouwer, Martin van Ittersum

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048136186
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/22/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction Martin van Ittersum Floor Brouwer 1

Part I Indicators and Concepts in Practice

2 Assessment of Multifunctionality and Jointness of Production Nadine Turpin Lee Stapleton Eric Perret C. Martijn van der Heide Guy Garrod Floor Brouwer Vaclav Voltr Dominique Cairol 11

3 The Institutional Dimension in Policy Assessment Insa Theesfeld Christian Schleyer Konrad Hagedorn Jean-Marc Callois Olivier Aznar Johanna Alkan Olsson 37

Part II Advancements in Modelling, Data and Software

4 A Component-Based Framework for Simulating Agricultural Production and Externalities Marcello Donatelli Graham Russell Andrea Emilio Rizzoli Marco Acutis Myriam Adam Ioannis N. Athanasiadis Matteo Balderacchi Luca Bechini Hatem Belhouchette Gianni Bellocchi Jacques-Eric Bergez Marco Botta Erik Braudeau Simone Bregaglio Laura Carlini Eric Casellas Florian Celette Enrico Ceotto Marie Hélène Charron-Moirez Roberto Confalonieri Marc Corbeels Luca Criscuolo Pablo Cruz Andrea di Guardo Domenico Ditto Christian Dupraz Michel Duru Diego Fiorani Antonella Gentile Frank Ewert Christian Gary Ephrem Habyarimana Claire Jouany Kamel Kansou Rob Knapen Giovanni Lanza Filippi Peter A. Leffelaar Luisa Manici Guillaume Martin Pierre Martin Eelco Meuter Nora Mugueta Rachmat Mulia Meine van Noordwijk Roelof Oomen Alexandra Rosenmund Vittorio Rossi Francesca Salinari Ariel Serrano Andrea Sorce Grégoire Vincent Jean-Pierre Theau Olivier Thérond Marco Trevisan Patrizia Trevisiol Frits K. van Evert Daniel Wallach Jacques Wery Arezki Zerourou 63

5 A Generic Farming System Simulator Kamel Louhichi Sander Janssen Argyris Kanellopoulos Hongtao Li Nina Borkowski Guillermo Flichman Huib Hengsdijk Peter Zander Maria Blanco Fonseca Grete Stokstad Ioannis N. Athanasiadis Andrea E. Rizzoli David Huber Thomas Heckelei Martin van Ittersum 109

6 Visualising Changes in Agricultural Landscapes Sébastien Griffon Daniel Auclair Amélie Nespoulous 133

7 A Biophysical Typology in Agri-environmental Modelling Gerard Hazeu Berien Elbersen Erling Andersen Bettina Baruth Kees van Diepen Marc Metzger 159

8 The Use of Regional Typologies in the Assessment of Farms' Performance Ida J. Terluin David Verhoog Frans E. Godeschalk 189

9 A Web-Based Software System for Model Integration in Impact Assessments of Agricultural and Environmental Policies Jan-Erik Wien Andrea Emilio Rizzoli Rob Knapen Ioannis Athanasiadis Sander Janssen Lorenzo Ruinelli Ferdinando Villa Mats Svensson Patrik Wallman Benny Jonsson Martin van Ittersum 207

Part III Use and Extensions of Integrated Assessment Modelling

10 Evaluating Integrated Assessment Tools for Policy Support Jacques-Eric Bergez Marijke Kuiper Olivier Thérond Marie Taverne Hatem Belhouchette Jacques Wery 237

11 A Comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as Integrated Modelling Systems Wolfgang Britz Ignacio Pérez Domínguez Thomas Heckelei 257

12 Science-Policy Interfaces in Impact Assessment Procedures Ann-Katrin Bäacklund Jean Paul Bousset Sara Brogaard Catherine Macombe Marie Taverne Martin van Ittersum 275

13 Economic Principles of Monetary Valuation in Evaluation Studies C. Martijn van der Heide Neil A. Powe Ståle Navrud 295

Index 319