Environmental and Agricultural Modelling:: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400790511
• ISBN13: 9789400790513
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"