The Impact of Future Socio-Economic and Climate change on Agricultural Land Use and The Wider Environment in East Anglia and North West England Using a Metamodel System

The impact of future socio-economic and climate changes on agricultural land use and the wider environment in East Anglia and North West England using a metamodel system, is discussed. Metamodel involves an equivalent analysis that enables both a detailed spatial analysis and analysis of the effects...

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Published inClimatic change Vol. 90; no. 1; p. 57
Main Authors Audsley, E, Pearn, K R, Harrison, P A, Berry, P M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2008
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Summary:The impact of future socio-economic and climate changes on agricultural land use and the wider environment in East Anglia and North West England using a metamodel system, is discussed. Metamodel involves an equivalent analysis that enables both a detailed spatial analysis and analysis of the effects of different input parameters. The model combines a crop model, which predicts the yield of a wide range of crops as a function of climate and soil type, with a farm model that determines the optimum cropping given crop gross margins, labour and machinery costs and soil workability of a generic farm. It is concluded that the model improves performance for identifying potential agricultural land.
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ISSN:0165-0009