Land-use change models are used by researchers and professionals to explore the
dynamics and drivers of land-use/land-cover change and to inform policies affecting such …

Decisions made by farmers may have large influences beyond the farm boundary, and for
this reason they are often of interest to Government and the public. The process of adoption …

The aim of this study was to apply the life cycle assessment (LCA) method, from cradle to
gate, to quantify the environmental burdens per 1,000 kg of expected edible carcass weight …

An increased emphasis on integrated water management at a catchment scale has led to
the development of numerous modelling tools. To support efficient decision making and to …

The research addresses key questions underpinning the development of sustainable
production and consumption systems that are based on domestically produced agricultural …

Internationally, a wide set of measures are being considered to reduce flood risk: natural
flood management (NFM) is one of them. NFM includes a broad range of measures that …

As geographic information systems (GIS) have moved from information storage and retrieval
operations towards more decision support functions, there is a need for more integration of …

Finite land is under pressure to provide food, timber, human infrastructure, climate change
mitigation, and wildlife habitat. Given the inherent trade-offs associated with land-use …

A hydrological-based model (HBV-NP) was applied to a catchment (1900 km2) in the
southern part of Sweden. Careful characterization of the present load situation and the …

The NERC-ESRC Land Use Programme (NELUP) uses a general systems framework for
organizing the large amounts of information that are relevant to decision making in land use …