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Global models of human decision-making for land-based mitigation and adaptation assessment

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  • A. Arneth

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate/Atmospheric Environmental Research)

  • C. Brown

    (Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

  • M. D. A. Rounsevell

    (Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)

Abstract

Climate change mitigation and adaptation are human-mediated processes but global modelling tools currently take no account of human responses to environmental change. In this Perspective the authors propose the agent functional type approach to advance the representation of these processes.

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  • A. Arneth & C. Brown & M. D. A. Rounsevell, 2014. "Global models of human decision-making for land-based mitigation and adaptation assessment," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 4(7), pages 550-557, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:4:y:2014:i:7:d:10.1038_nclimate2250
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2250
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    7. Calum Brown & Dave Murray-Rust & Jasper van Vliet & Shah Jamal Alam & Peter H Verburg & Mark D Rounsevell, 2014. "Experiments in Globalisation, Food Security and Land Use Decision Making," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(12), pages 1-24, December.
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    10. Lintao Liu & Shouchao Yu & Hengjia Zhang & Yong Wang & Chao Liang, 2023. "Analysis of Land Use Change Drivers and Simulation of Different Future Scenarios: Taking Shanxi Province of China as an Example," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-19, January.

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