Global Agricultural Land Cover and Land Use: Data and Applications

31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Navin Ramankutty

Presentation by Navin Ramankutty at the GEOSHARE Workshop, 23 May 2011BioNavin RamankuttyDepartment of GeographyMcGill University

Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Laura C Bowling, Iman Haqiqi

Video presentation on "Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

HUBZero Breakout Summary

14 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Institutional Design Breakout Summary

14 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Dave Gustafson

Introduction Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Video presentation on introduction of the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

JOINT WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT Approaches for Improving Data and Models To Support Food System Sustainability Modeling

30 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria

Flyer for the joint workshop from GEOSHARE and CIMSANS

Land Use in the 21st Century: Contributing to the Global Public Good

08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This paper focuses on the evolution of global public goods related to the world’s land resources over the course of the 21st century, their potential impacts on the world’s poorest households, as well as prospects for policy interventions aimed at enhancing these outcomes. It begins...

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?

13 Aug 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Pietro Sternai

This is the supporting models for the contribution "AGU Centennial Grand Challenge: Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?" [Paper #2018JB016460R] submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.

Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt

08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher Kucharik, Laura C Bowling, Jing Liu

Video presentation on "Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable Agriculture and Use of the World's Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century

19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Laura C Bowling, Keith Cherkauer, Matthew Huber, David R Johnson, Carol Song, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.

Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Wallace E. Tyner

This paper surveys the evidence on market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels, with special attention to the indirect greenhouse gas emissions stemming from land cover change in the wake of increased demand for biofuel feedstocks. We find clear evidence that market mediated land use...

MultiSpec

24 Oct 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Abdur Rahman Maud, Wei-Kang Hsu, Tsung Tai Yeh

Image processing application to display and analyze geospatial images

MultiSpec - Desktop and Online Tool

20 Dec 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl

MultiSpec is an easy to learn and use, freeware image processing tool for interactively analyzing a broad spectrum of geospatial image data, with capabilities such as image display, unsupervised and supervised classification, feature extraction, feature enhancement, and several other functions....

National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change (press release)

05 Mar 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): John Kriva, Melissa Widhalm

New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon

22 Nov 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Frances C. Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel, Delavane Diaz

Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present...

PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

14 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Delphine, Navin Ramankutty, I Luk Kim, Rajesh Kalyanam

A GEOSHARE tool for conducting live simulations using PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

POL 520/EAS 591 Great issues: climate and policy

14 Nov 2010 | Courses

The course POL 520/EAS 591, “Great issues: climate and policy”, is designed to better educate students in the use and misuse of modeling across disciplines, so that they will be better builders and consumers of integrated, complex models of coupled human/natural systems in their own careers. More...

Predicting Long Term Food Demand, Cropland Use and Prices

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This paper seeks to survey, understand and reconcile the widely divergent estimates of long run global crop output, land use and price projections in the current literature. We begin by reviewing the history of such projections and the different models and assumptions used in these exercises. We...

Reflections on persistent problems and emerging opportunities…..

31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stanley Wood

This is a presentation from geoshare roundtable at GLP-OSM 2014.