Modelling Land-Use Change Progress and Applications
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 land for new residential housing has been a huge challenge for governments striving to
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The GeoJournal Library Volume 90 Managing Editor:
Max Barlow, Toronto, Canada
Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany
Editorial Board:
Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Modelling Land-Use Change Progress and Applications
Edited by
ERIC KOOMEN Department of Spatial Economics/SPINlab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
JOHN STILLWELL School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
ALDRIK BAKEMA Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
and
HENK J. SCHOLTEN Department of Spatial Economics/SPINlab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Contents Contributing authors
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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1. Modelling land-use change E. KOOMEN AND J. STILLWELL PART I: Analysis of land-use trends and their driving forces 2. Land-use change at cadastral parcel level in Albania L.J.M. JANSEN, G. CARRAI AND M. PETRI 3. Driving forces of landscape change in the urbanizing Limmat Valley, Switzerland A.M. HERSPERGER AND M. BÜRGI 4. Landscape changes in the Israeli Carmel area M. SONIS, M. SHOSHANY AND N. GOLDSHLAGER 5. New land-use development processes associated with the acceleration of urbanisation in China Z.-G. WU, S.-H. ZHOU AND C.-C. FENG
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PART II: Explanatory models of land-use change 6. Driving forces of land-use change in a cultural landscape of Spain 97 J. PEÑA, A. BONET, J. BELLOT, J.R. SÁNCHEZ, D. EISENHUTH, S. HALLETT AND A. ALEDO v
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7. Empirically derived probability maps to downscale aggregated land-use data N. DENDONCKER, P. BOGAERT, AND M. ROUNSEVELL 8. A spatial interaction model for agricultural uses J. GONÇALVES AND T. DENTINHO
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PART III: Optimisation modelling 9. Spatial optimisation in land-use allocation problems W. LOONEN, P. HEUBERGER, M. KUIJPERS-LINDE
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10. Sustainable land-use and water management in mountain ecosystems S.K. MANDAL
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11. GeneticLand: modelling land-use change using evolutionary algorithms J. SEIXAS, J.P. NUNES, P. LOURENÇO AND J. CORTE-REAL
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PART IV: Incorporation of new modelling approaches 12. Microsimulation of metropolitan employment deconcentration D. FELSENSTEIN, E. ASHBEL AND A. BEN-NUN 13
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