Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117329 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
EFForTS Discussion Paper Series No. 17
Publisher: 
GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Abstract: 
Land-use changes have transformed tropical landscapes throughout the past decades dramatically. We describe here an ecologicaleconomic land-use change model to provide an integrated,exploratory tool to analyze how tropical land use and land-use change affect ecological and socio- conomic functions. The guiding question of the model is what kind of landscape mosaic can improve the ensemble of ecosystem functioning, biodiversity and economic benefit based on the synergies and trade-offs that we have to account for. The economic submodel simulates smallholder land-use management decisions based on a profit maximization assumption and a Leontief production function. Each household determines factor inputs for all household fields and decides about land-use change based on available wealth. The ecological submodel includes a simple account of carbon sequestration in above- and belowground vegetation. Initialized with realistic or artificial land use maps, the ecological-economic model will advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the trade-offs and synergies of ecological and economic functions in tropical landscapes.
Subjects: 
ecological-economic model
land-use change
smallholder
oil palm
rubber
Indonesia
simulation model
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