Title
Impacts of land managers' decisions on landuse transition within Missisquoi Watershed Vermont: An application of agent-based modeling system
Abstract
The primary objective of this study is to identify macro emergent phenomena pertaining to landuse transitions within the Missisquoi Watershed, Vermont, by accounting for land managers' landuse decision making processes with respect to landscape characteristics, climate change scenarios and public policies. Due to the heterogeneity and the complexity of the interactions among human decision makers and potential trade-offs among natural and socio-economic losses and gains, a landuse transition agent-based model (LTABM) is developed to simulate landuse transitions with respect to several climate change scenarios and public policy interventions. It is expected that land managers' landuse decisions will be primarily dominated by profit maximizations, but also heavily driven by new technologies, risk perceptions and tax and subsidy policies. The results of this study will identify influential factors affecting landuse change, policy implementation hurdles, and alternate public policies leading to more sustainable landuse planning in the face of climate change.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549979
SysCon
Keywords
Field
DocType
climate mitigation,environmental science computing,government policies,land use planning,multi-agent systems,sustainable development,ltabm,missisquoi watershed vermont,climate change,land use transition agent-based model,landscape characteristic,macroemergent phenomena,profit maximization,public policy,risk perception,socio-economic gains,socio-economic losses,subsidy policy,sustainable land use planning,tax,agent-based modeling,coupled natural-human system,landuse transition,meteorology,multi agent systems,agriculture,stress
Subsidy,Environmental resource management,Climate change,Public policy,Watershed,Emerging technologies,Sustainable development,Business,Land use,Land-use planning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-7620
978-1-4673-3107-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
yushiou tsai100.34
azhar zia200.34
christopher koliba301.01
j guilbert400.34
gabriela bucini500.68
brian beckage600.68