This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use
Scanner model. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model …

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 …

The use of land changes over time as both natural and man-made environments are
influenced by the pressures associated with the processes of development. The demand for …

Perhaps the most fundamental of all the changes in the recent history of the social sciences
is concerned with methodology. No longer content merely to provide speculative hypotheses …

Simulation models of land use predict or describe land-use change over space and time.
Recent overviews of land-use simulation models show an overwhelming amount of different …

Despite more than four decades of efforts to integrate the two fields, the place of land-use
models in planning remains problematic. The expanding possibilities afforded by today's …

Land-use change is a key factor in the development of the human and physical environment.
Models of land-use change help understand this intricate system and can provide valuable …

The present generation of geographical information systems supports strategic planning
processes in several ways. They are able to store, manage and analyse the enormous …

Over twenty years of effort have gone into the development of a general framework for
modelling land-use and transport interaction. This effort has been directed at integrating …

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 …