A setup for a scenario-driven water balance at landscape scale—assessment with AKWA-M®-Embedded in a model framework for land-use planning’s decision support in mountainous southwest China

Autor: Karl-Heinz Feger, Albrecht Münch, Karin Berkhoff, Sylvia Herrmann, Andreas Wahren
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Earth Science. 21:974-978
ISSN: 1867-111X
1674-487X
Popis: Land-cover changes cause a loss of natural vegetation in many parts of the world. In the Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) district (Yunnan (云南) Province), rubber plantations replace tropical rainforests covering already an area of about 10% of the study area (2007). There, land-use allocation is mostly driven by economic considerations. Thus, local planning authorities need decision support for land-use planning issues, which integrate socio-economic and ecological aspects. Within the NabanFrame, an agro-economic, ecological and social model was applied, which, altogether, interacted with a land allocation model via defined interfaces. Effects on the water cycle, ecological conditions as well as socio-economic should be considered by integrating the spatially distributed rainfall-runoff and water balance model AKWA-M® in the model setup.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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