TY  - GEN
AU  - Thornton, P.K.
AU  - Jones, Peter G.
TI  - Towards a conceptual dynamic land-use model
AV  - 61564 
KW  - Land use
KW  - Geographical information systems
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Utilización de la tierra
KW  - Sistemas de información geográfica
KW  - CIAT Autor
KW  - Economía de la tierra y política fundiaria
KW  - Book chapters
KW  - Capítulos de libros
KW  - Land economics and policies
N2  - Non-agricultural uses and demand for food are placing increasing pressures on the land resource. The practicability of land-use modelling in addressing these pressures is limited by having to deal with human agents in agroecological systems; there are many problems in attempting to model farmersþ decision-making behaviour. The benefits of appropriate land-use models are obvious enough: if the major factors that affect future land-use change are known, then steps can be taken to steer it in a direction that satisfies the often competing aims of different sections of society. On the basis that even rudimentary models of land-use change could be of real value, we describe preliminary work on a conceptual model of land use in a region based on simple and, for the most part, easily verifiable rules. We indicate future work to turn the conceptual model into a useful tool for ex ante policy assessment
ER  -