An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning
Agricultural land-use change is a dynamic process that varies as a function of social, economic and environmental factors spanning from the local to the global scale. The cumulative regional impacts of these factors on land use adoption decisions by farmers are neither well accounted for nor reflect...
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| description | Agricultural land-use change is a dynamic process that varies as a function of social, economic and environmental factors spanning from the local to the global scale. The cumulative regional impacts of these factors on land use adoption decisions by farmers are neither well accounted for nor reflected in agricultural land use planning. We present an innovative spatially explicit agent-based modelling approach (Crop GIS-ABM) that accounts for factors involved in farmer decision making on new irrigation adoption to enable land-use predictions and exploration. The model was designed using a participatory approach, capturing stakeholder insights in a conceptual model of farmer decisions. We demonstrate a case study of the factors influencing the uptake of new irrigation infrastructure and land use in Tasmania, Australia. The model demonstrates how irrigated land-use expansion promotes the diffusion of alternative crops in the region, as well as how coupled social, biophysical and environmental conditions play an important role in crop selection. Our study shows that agricultural land use reflected the evolution of multiple simultaneous interacting biophysical and socio-economic drivers, including soil and climate type, crop and commodity prices, and the accumulated effects of interactive decisions of farmers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d79304720a7641ff8427f9fe9d706c322023-11-21T13:50:42ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2021-04-0110436410.3390/land10040364An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use PlanningSahar Shahpari0Janelle Allison1Matthew Tom Harrison2Roger Stanley3Institute for Regional Development, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7320, AustraliaUniversity College, Cradle Coast Campus, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7320, AustraliaTasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7320, AustraliaTasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Tasmania 7320, AustraliaAgricultural land-use change is a dynamic process that varies as a function of social, economic and environmental factors spanning from the local to the global scale. The cumulative regional impacts of these factors on land use adoption decisions by farmers are neither well accounted for nor reflected in agricultural land use planning. We present an innovative spatially explicit agent-based modelling approach (Crop GIS-ABM) that accounts for factors involved in farmer decision making on new irrigation adoption to enable land-use predictions and exploration. The model was designed using a participatory approach, capturing stakeholder insights in a conceptual model of farmer decisions. We demonstrate a case study of the factors influencing the uptake of new irrigation infrastructure and land use in Tasmania, Australia. The model demonstrates how irrigated land-use expansion promotes the diffusion of alternative crops in the region, as well as how coupled social, biophysical and environmental conditions play an important role in crop selection. Our study shows that agricultural land use reflected the evolution of multiple simultaneous interacting biophysical and socio-economic drivers, including soil and climate type, crop and commodity prices, and the accumulated effects of interactive decisions of farmers.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/4/364land use changesspatial agent-based modellingstakeholder insightsirrigation expansion |
| spellingShingle | Sahar Shahpari Janelle Allison Matthew Tom Harrison Roger Stanley An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning Land land use changes spatial agent-based modelling stakeholder insights irrigation expansion |
| title | An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning |
| title_full | An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning |
| title_fullStr | An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning |
| title_short | An Integrated Economic, Environmental and Social Approach to Agricultural Land-Use Planning |
| title_sort | integrated economic environmental and social approach to agricultural land use planning |
| topic | land use changes spatial agent-based modelling stakeholder insights irrigation expansion |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/4/364 |
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