Keynote Presentations from the 2nd AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005

Speaker: Rik Leemans
rik.leemans<at>wur.nl
Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Title of the talk: The relationship between land use and climate change (pdf: 7,3MB)

Summary of the talk by David Zaks: Students´ summary (pdf)

Recommended background literature on this presentation:

• Foley JA, DeFries R, Asner GP, Barford C, Bonan G, Carpenter SR, Chapin FS, Coe MT, Daily GC, Gibbs HK, Helkowsky JH, Holloway T, Howard EA, Kucharik CJ, Monfreda C, Patz JA, Prentice IC, Ramankutty N, Snyder PK (2005) Global consequences of land use Science, 309: 570-574. doi:10.1126/science.1111772.


• Leemans R, Eickhout B, Strengers B, Bouwman L, Schaeffer M (2002) The consequences of uncertainties in land use, climate and vegetation responses on the terrestrial carbon Science in China (Series C) 45:126-141 (pdf: 500KB).


• Strengers B, Leemans R, Eickhout B, de Vries B, Bouwman L (2004) The land-use projections and resulting emissions in the IPCC SRES scenarios as simulated by the IMAGE 2.2 model GeoJournal 61: 381-393. doi:10.1007/s10708-004-5054-8.

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