Integrated Spatial Simulation of Population and Urban Land Use: a Pan-European Model Validation.

ABSTRACT: Spatial models jointly simulating population and land-use change provide support for policy-making, by allowing to explore territorial developments under alternative scenarios and resulting impacts in the environment, economy and society. However, their ability to reproduce observed spatial patterns is rarely evaluated through model validation. This lack of insight prevents researchers and policy-makers of fully grasping the ability of existing models to provide sensible projections of future land use and population density. In this article, we address this gap by performing a model validation of the LUISA Territorial Modelling Platform, a spatial model jointly simulating population and land use at a fine resolution (100 m) in the European Union and United Kingdom. In particular, we compar

SUBMITTER: Diogo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10656325 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature