Ebook: Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment
- Tags: Agriculture, Behavioural Sciences, Plant Sciences, Environmental Monitoring/Analysis, Soil Science & Conservation, Agricultural Economics
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:
1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;
2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;
3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:
1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;
2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;
3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:
1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;
2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;
3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 8-8
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Assessment of Multifunctionality and Jointness of Production....Pages 11-35
The Institutional Dimension in Policy Assessment....Pages 37-59
Front Matter....Pages 62-62
A Component-Based Framework for Simulating Agricultural Production and Externalities....Pages 63-108
A Generic Farming System Simulator....Pages 109-132
Visualising Changes in Agricultural Landscapes....Pages 133-157
A Biophysical Typology in Agri-environmental Modelling....Pages 159-187
The Use of Regional Typologies in the Assessment of Farms’ Performance....Pages 189-205
A Web-Based Software System for Model Integration in Impact Assessments of Agricultural and Environmental Policies....Pages 207-234
Front Matter....Pages 236-236
Evaluating Integrated Assessment Tools for Policy Support....Pages 237-256
A Comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as Integrated Modelling Systems....Pages 257-274
Science–Policy Interfaces in Impact Assessment Procedures....Pages 275-294
Economic Principles of Monetary Valuation in Evaluation Studies....Pages 295-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-322
Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:
1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;
2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;
3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 8-8
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Assessment of Multifunctionality and Jointness of Production....Pages 11-35
The Institutional Dimension in Policy Assessment....Pages 37-59
Front Matter....Pages 62-62
A Component-Based Framework for Simulating Agricultural Production and Externalities....Pages 63-108
A Generic Farming System Simulator....Pages 109-132
Visualising Changes in Agricultural Landscapes....Pages 133-157
A Biophysical Typology in Agri-environmental Modelling....Pages 159-187
The Use of Regional Typologies in the Assessment of Farms’ Performance....Pages 189-205
A Web-Based Software System for Model Integration in Impact Assessments of Agricultural and Environmental Policies....Pages 207-234
Front Matter....Pages 236-236
Evaluating Integrated Assessment Tools for Policy Support....Pages 237-256
A Comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as Integrated Modelling Systems....Pages 257-274
Science–Policy Interfaces in Impact Assessment Procedures....Pages 275-294
Economic Principles of Monetary Valuation in Evaluation Studies....Pages 295-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-322
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