Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Modeling Land Use and Land Use Change in Brazil
By Leila Harfuch (Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations). In her talk she underlined the modeling land use and land use change in Brazil, stressing out deforestation as a serious issue. Deforestation causes and affects cattle and pasture land expansion.
The goal of this organization is to remove as much as possible the competition among crops, sugarcane, and pasture area,” legitimizing the need to measure direct and indirect land use change integrating economic and GIS methodology.” Models used for these goals are FAPRI, FASOM, and GTAP.
The presentation contains the data of agricultural land use in Brazil from 1970’s all the way to 2006, measured by The Geographic Information System (GIS). It also shows the land competitions matrix between all areas in this country with detailed information about sugarcane, crops and pastures. READ MORE
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