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4.9. Rounsevell

Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008

 

Speaker: Mark Rounsevell

mark.rounsevell -at- ed.ac.uk

David Kinloch Michie Chair, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS), School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Crew Building, The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK

 

Title of the talk: Introducing scenarios in environmental change assessment: concepts and methods (pdf: 8MB)

Summary of the talk by Brooke Wilkerson: Students´ summary (pdf)

Scenario development exercise - principles of the two storylines (adapted from the storylines of the EU FARO project (Foresight Analysis of Rural areas Of Europe). Source: M. Metzfger et al., University of Edinburgh (pdf)

 

Recommended background literature on this presentation:

  • Rounsevell MDA, Reginster I, Araújo MB, Carter TR, Dendoncker N, Ewert F, House JI, Kankaanpää S, Leemans R, Metzger MJ, Schmit C, Schmith P, Tuck G (2005) A coherent set of future land use change scenarios for Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 114:57-68. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.11.027
  • Ewert F, Rounsevell MDA, Reginster I, Metzger MJ, Leemans R (2005) Future scenarios of European agricultural land use I. Estimating changes in crop productivity. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 107:101-116, doi:10.1016/j.agee.2004.12.003.
  • Rounsevell MDA, Ewert F, Reginster I, Leemans R, Carter TR (2005) Future scenarios of European agricultural land use II. Projecting changes in cropland and grassland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 107:117-135, doi:10.1016/j.agee.2004.12.002.