A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

04 May 2019 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Thales A P West, Jan Börner, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When...

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

01 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub

Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...

Climate Scenario Aggregator

10 Nov 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Climate Scenario Aggregator

Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools

10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza

This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski

HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...

Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel

Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...

Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel

Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...

Evaluation Reports

18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith

An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.

LANDPARAM

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

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

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.

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...

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

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