Land Use Simulation for Europe

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....