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Authors: Rounsevell, M. D. A., Pedroli, B., Erb, K.-H., Gramberger, M., Busck, A. G., Haberl, H., Kristensen, S., Kuemmerle, T., Lavorel, S., Lindner, M., Lotze-Campen, H., Metzger, M. J., Murray-Rust, D., Popp, A., Pérez-Soba, M., Reenberg, A., Vadineanu, A., Verburg, P. H., & Wolfslehner, B.
Affiliations: University of Edinburgh (GB)
Wageningen University & Research (NL)
University of Klagenfurt (AT)
Prospex (Belgium) (BE)
University of Copenhagen (DK)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
European Forest Institute (FI)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (DE)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
BOKU University (AT)
Corresponding author: Rounsevell, Mark D.A.
ORCID: Rounsevell, Mark D.A.
Pedroli, Bas
Erb, Karl-Heinz
Busck, Anne Gravsholt
Haberl, Helmut
Kristensen, Søren
Kuemmerle, Tobias
Lavorel, Sandra
Lindner, Marcus
Metzger, Marc J.
Popp, Alexander
Reenberg, Anette
Verburg, Peter H.
Venue: Land Use Policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2012-10
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 899-910
ISSN: 0264-8377 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.01.007
OpenAlex: W2153036505
Cited by: 393
References: 181
Citations by year: 2026: 17 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 39 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 33 · 2012: 6
FWCI: 25.79
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
research.wur.nl
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Land Use Policy (publishedVersion)
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Funders: European Commission
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Keywords: land system science, land use change, multiscale modeling, complex systems thinking, scenario analysis, stakeholder engagement, land use intensity

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