7.9. Lotze-Campen
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
Speaker: Hermann Lotze-Campen
lotze-campen -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Title of the talk: Monitoring, modelling and managing land-use change on a large scale (pdf: 3MB)
Summary of the talk by Katharina Sabellek: Students´ summary (pdf)
Abstract
Monitoring, modelling and managing land-use change on a large scaleNumerous interactions between human activities and environmental processes are related to land use and land use change. Food, fibre and forestry production are determined and constrained by the availability of land, water and other biophysical factors. At the same time, environmental conditions are more or less strongly affected by various human activities. The analysis of land use and land use change is usually conducted on the regional to local scale, due to data constraints and the complexity of the processes involved. However, in the context of global change research, e.g. climate change or socio-economic globalization, land use change also has to be considered on the large scale, in order to capture important global linkages. We will present and discuss the strengths and limitations of large-scale modelling approaches for land use change research. We will also discuss a concept for linking large-scale modelling approaches with local or regional case studies on monitoring and managing land use. Finally, we will open up the discussion on how the concept of ecosystem services could be captured within these modelling approaches.
Recommended background literature on this presentation
- Lotze-Campen H, Müller C, Bondeau A, Jachner A, Lucht W (2008) Global food demand, productivity growth and the scarcity of land and water resources: a spatially explicit mathematical programming approach. Agricultural Economics 39(3):325-338. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00336.x
- Lotze-Campen H, Reusswig F, Stoll-Kleemann S (2008) Integrated socio-ecological monitoring of biodiversity change - building upon the world network of biosphere reserves. GAIA 17/S1:107-115 http://www.ingentaconnect.com
- Heistermann M, Müller C, Ronneberger K (2006) Land in sight? Achievements, deficits and potentials of continental to global scale land-use modeling. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 114:141-158. doi: doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.11.015
