Environmental and Agricultural Modelling:: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789400790513)

List of contributors.- List of acronyms and abbreviations.- Preface.- 1. Introduction.- Part I Indicators and concepts in practice.- 2. Assessment of multifunctionality and jointness of production.-3. The institutional dimension in policy assessment.- Part II Advancements in modelling, data and software.- 4. A component-based framework for simulating agricultural production and externalities.- 5. A generic farming system simulator.- 6. Visualising changes in agricultural landscapes.- 7. A biophysical typology in agri-environmental modelling. - 8. The use of regional typologies in the assessment of farms' performance. -9. A web-based software system for model integration in impact assessments of agricultural and environmental policies.- Part III Use and extensions of integrated assessment modelling.- 10. Evaluating integrated assessment tools for policy support.- 11. A comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as integrated modelling systems. - 12. Science - policy interfaces in impact assessment procedures.- 13. Economic principles of monetary valuation in evaluation studies.

Author: Floor M. Brouwer
ISBN-10: 9400790511
ISBN-13: 9789400790513
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2014
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d