The National Environmental Assessment Agency of the RIVM in the Netherlands is obliged
to report on future trends in the environment and nature every 4 years. The last report …

The objective of this paper is to present the development of quantitative, spatially explicit,
and alternative scenarios of future urban land use in Europe. The scenario-construction …

This paper presents a multi-sectoral overview of the key driving forces of land-use change.
As part of the design phase for a new land-use model for the Netherlands Environmental …

The PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has a long tradition in land-use
modelling. Indeed, the PBL has been putting spatially explicit models of land-use change …

This paper presents two sets of functional indicators that were implemented and tested for
the assessment of spatial aspects of future land-use configurations as simulated by a land …

The modelling of land use change is a way to analyse future scenarios by modelling
different pathways. Application of spatial data of different scales coupled with socio …

Land consumption due to residential development, economic growth and transportation
belongs to the most serious environmental pressures on landscapes worldwide, in particular …

Environment Explorer is a system developed to support spatial scientists, planners and
decision makers at the regional and national levels in the Netherlands to help them analyse …

In Switzerland, the decreasing significance of agriculture has led to prominent processes of
land abandonment in mountainous areas where the maintenance of open land relies on …

Plausible scenarios of future land use derived from model projections may differ
substantially from what is actually desired by society, and identifying such mismatches is …