Environmental and agricultural modelling : integrated approaches for policy impact assessment

Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing:

1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale;

2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability;

3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.

Martin van Ittersum and Floor BrouwerNadine Turpin and Lee Stapleton and Eric Perret and C. Martijn van der Heide and Guy Garrod and Floor Brouwer and Vaclav Voltr and Dominique CairolInsa Theesfeld and Christian Schleyer and Konrad Hagedorn and Jean-Marc Callois and Olivier Aznar and Johanna Alkan OlssonMarcello Donatelli and Graham Russell and Andrea Emilio Rizzoli and Marco Acutis and Myriam Adam and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis and Matteo Balderacchi and Luca Bechini and Hatem Belhouchette and Gianni Bellocchi and Jacques-Eric Bergez and Marco Botta and Erik Braudeau and Simone Bregaglio and Laura Carlini and Eric Casellas and Florian Celette and Enrico Ceotto and Marie Hélène Charron-Moirez and Roberto Confalonieri and Marc Corbeels and Luca Criscuolo and Pablo Cruz and Andrea di Guardo and Domenico Ditto and Christian Dupraz and Michel Duru and Diego Fiorani and Antonella Gentile and Frank Ewert and Christian Gary and Ephrem Habyarimana and Claire Jouany and Kamel Kansou and Rob Knapen and Giovanni Lanza Filippi and Peter A. Leffelaar and Luisa Manici and Guillaume Martin and Pierre Martin and Eelco Meuter and Nora Mugueta and Rachmat Mulia and Meine van Noordwijk and Roelof Oomen and Alexandra Rosenmund and Vittorio Rossi and Francesca Salinari and Ariel Serrano and Andrea Sorce and Grégoire Vincent and Jean-Pierre Theau and Olivier Thérond and Marco Trevisan and Patrizia Trevisiol and Frits K. van Evert and Daniel Wallach and Jacques Wery and Arezki ZerourouKamel Louhichi and Sander Janssen and Argyris Kanellopoulos and Hongtao Li and Nina Borkowski and Guillermo Flichman and Huib Hengsdijk and Peter Zander and Maria Blanco Fonseca and Grete Stokstad and Ioannis N. Athanasiadis and Andrea E. Rizzoli and David Huber and Thomas Heckelei and Martin van IttersumSébastien Griffon and Daniel Auclair and Amélie NespoulousGerard Hazeu and Berien Elbersen and Erling Andersen and Bettina Baruth and Kees van Diepen and Marc MetzgerIda J. Terluin and David Verhoog and Frans E. GodeschalkJan-Erik Wien and Andrea Emilio Rizzoli and Rob Knapen and Ioannis Athanasiadis and Sander Janssen and Lorenzo Ruinelli and Ferdinando Villa and Mats Svensson and Patrik Wallman and Benny Jonsson and Martin van IttersumJacques-Eric Bergez and Marijke Kuiper and Olivier Thérond and Marie Taverne and Hatem Belhouchette and Jacques WeryWolfgang Britz and Ignacio Pérez Domínguez and Thomas HeckeleiAnn-Katrin Bäacklund and Jean Paul Bousset and Sara Brogaard and Catherine Macombe and Marie Taverne and Martin van IttersumC. Martijn van der Heide and Neil A. Powe and Ståle Navrud

1 Introduction	p. 1
Part I Indicators and Concepts in Practice
2 Assessment of Multifunctionality and Jointness of Production	p. 11
3 The Institutional Dimension in Policy Assessment	p. 37
Part II Advancements in Modelling, Data and Software
4 A Component-Based Framework for Simulating Agricultural Production and Externalities	p. 63
5 A Generic Farming System Simulator	p. 109
6 Visualising Changes in Agricultural Landscapes	p. 133
7 A Biophysical Typology in Agri-environmental Modelling	p. 159
8 The Use of Regional Typologies in the Assessment of Farms' Performance	p. 189
9 A Web-Based Software System for Model Integration in Impact Assessments of Agricultural and Environmental Policies	p. 207
Part III Use and Extensions of Integrated Assessment Modelling
10 Evaluating Integrated Assessment Tools for Policy Support	p. 237
11 A Comparison of CAPRI and SEAMLESS-IF as Integrated Modelling Systems	p. 257
12 Science-Policy Interfaces in Impact Assessment Procedures	p. 275
13 Economic Principles of Monetary Valuation in Evaluation Studies	p. 295
Index	p. 319

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