Land change modeling: moving beyond projections

Martin Paegelow (1) , Maria T. Camacho Olmedo (2) , Jean-François Mas (3) , Thomas Houet (1) , Gilmore Robert Pontius (4)

1 GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement
2 Instituto de Desarollo Regional
3 Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental - UNAM
4 School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester

During the last decades, there has been an increasing interest from the academic and policy communities to monitor and model changes of the earth surface. Modeling environmental dynamics helps to understand changes that are taking place currently and to anticipate future evolutions. Prospective simulation supports decision-making for environmental management and land planning. This special issue is dedicated to advances in land change modeling. Land Use / Land Cover Change, also called LUCC, is certainly a prominent interface between natural and social dynamics because anthropogenic LUCC has a profound impact on Earth. LUCC impacts a large amount of highly relevant topics such as resource exploitation, climate change, biodiversity loss, etc. Land change modeling can provide transparent, efficient and sustainable decision support to these current and rising environmental problems

Mots clés: Land use change

Domaines: Géographie

Martin Paegelow, Maria T. Camacho Olmedo, Jean-François Mas, Thomas Houet, Gilmore Robert Pontius. Land change modeling: moving beyond projections. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2013, 27 (9), pp.1691-1695. ⟨10.1080/13658816.2013.819104⟩. ⟨halshs-00905367⟩