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Herzig, Alexander ; Nguyen, Trung Thanh ; Ausseil, Anne-Gaelle E. ; Maharjan, Ganga Ram ; Dymond, John R. ; Arnhold, Sebastian ; Koellner, Thomas ; Rutledge, Daniel ; Tenhunen, John:
Assessing resource-use efficiency of land use.
In: Environmental Modelling & Software.
Vol. 107
(2018)
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- pp. 34-49.
ISSN 1364-8152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.05.005
Abstract in another language
We introduce an explicit indicator and the Land Use Management Support System to assess the resource-use efficiency of land use (RUE) at the landscape scale. To estimate RUE, we relate land-use performance with regard to ecosystem services indicators to the maximum possible land-use performance based on an optimised land-use configuration. The test application of the RUE assessment in the Haean catchment, South Korea, shows that the land-use system's RUE could be increased by 11% for both nitrate and sediment loss. The estimated headroom could indicate whether potential contaminant reduction targets for the downstream water reservoir Lake Soyang could be achieved with the current land-use system. The recurring RUE assessment for a given region might indicate the effectiveness of spatial planning and policy measures to improve the RUE in that region. Future work should address the integration of RUE into a participatory spatial planning or resource-management framework.