In summary, land-use change simulation modelling is a relatively new and dynamic field of study and this book provides a full overview of the topic, a wide range of applications (both geographically and thematically), a mix of theory and practice, a synthesis of recent research progress, and educational material for students and teachers.

This book provides a full overview of land-use change simulation modelling, a wide range of applications, a mix of theory and practice, a synthesis of recent research progress, and educational material for students and teachers. This volume is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the state-of-the-art of land-use modelling, its background and its application.

Modelling land-use change.- Modelling Land-Use Change.- Analysis of land-use trends and their driving forces.- Land-Use Change at Cadastral Parcel Level in Albania.- Driving Forces of Landscape Change in The Urbanizing Limmat Valley, Switzerland.- Landscape Changes in the Israeli Carmel Area.- New Land-Use Development Processes Associated with the Acceleration of Urbanisation in China.- Explanatory models of land-use change.- Driving Forces of Land-Use Change in a Cultural Landscape of Spain.- Empirically Derived Probability Maps to Downscale Aggregated Land-Use Data.- A Spatial Interaction Model for Agricultural Uses.- Optimisation modelling.- Spatial Optimisation in Land-Use Allocation Problems.- Sustainable Land-Use and Water Management in Mountain Ecosystems.- Geneticland: Modelling Land-Use Change Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Incorporation of new modelling approaches.- Microsimulation of Metropolitan Employment Deconcentration.- Simulation of Polycentric Urban Growth Dynamics Through Agents.- Puma: Multi-Agent Modelling of Urban Systems.- Integrating Cellular Automata and Regional Dynamics Using Gis.- Operational land-use simulation models.- A Land-Use Modelling System for Environmental Impact Assessment.- The Moland Modelling Framework for Urban and Regional Land-Use Dynamics.- Dynamic Simulation of Land-Use Change Trajectories with the Clue-S Model.- Land-use simulation for policy analysis.- Beyond Growth? Decline of The Urban Fabric In Eastern Germany.- Land-Use Simulation For Water Management.- Gis-Based Modelling of Land-Use Systems.