Modeling land use

Bouyer Thomas, Carton Sophie. 2007. Modeling land use. Paris : AgroParisTech, 109 p. Mémoire de master 2 : Sciences et techniques du vivant : AgroParisTech

Résumé : This report deals with our work at the CIRED (International Centre for Research on Environment and Development). We did a 6 month-internship working together on the supply side of Nexus Land-Use, a technical and economic model of global land use developed by Gitz and Ollivier (2007). The underlying very general problematic of our work is a better understanding of the interface between agriculture and environment. This report first presents a bibliographic review of the long going effects of intensive agriculture on the environment, and the future challenges that agriculture will have to face as a consequence. We quickly remind the issues related to the global political context. Then we turn to a review of different land use models, and draw a few conclusions for Nexus Land Use itself. We move further to a highlight of the difficulties inherent to the use of databases. Then we deal with methods to improve certain aspects of the supply side of Nexus, such as the representation of yields, spatialization, taking into account water use for irrigation, integrating a new model for livestock production etc. The last part is devoted to the presentation of a simplified model, developed for the European Project MATISSE, and its results.

Classification Agris : U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières

Auteurs et affiliations

• Bouyer Thomas, AgroParisTech (FRA)
• Carton Sophie, AgroParisTech (FRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/541877/)

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