The use of constrained cellular automata for high-resolution modelling of urban land-use dynamics

White, Roger; Engelen, Guy; Uljee, Inge

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“…Explanation is our goal, not prediction (Brown et al, 2005). CA approaches have been used to investigate land cover change in a variety of settings, both urban (e.g., Batty et al, 1999;Webster and Wu, 1999;White and Engelen, 1993;White et al, 1997) and rural (e.g., Mas et al, 2004;Messina and Walsh, 2001;Silveira et al, 2002;Walsh et al, 2006). Our approach is distinctive in its incorporation of population growth and spatial distribution on an annual basis over almost fifty years.…”

Section: Simulating Effects Of Village Settlementmentioning

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Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand

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Frontiers constitute a major source of global land cover change hot spots, with forests and grass lands being converted into agricultural uses. As such, frontiers provide an opportunity to see how people manipulate the land and their lives in the context of social, cultural and environmental constraints. This paper examines frontier settlement and land cover change in Nang Rong district, Northeast Thailand for the last half century. It uses a Cellular Automata (CA) model to explore the land cover consequences of alternative patterns of settlement in a setting where people establish dwelling units in nucleated villages and work agricultural plots that surround villages. Forested land around the center of a village is converted into agricultural uses in an inverse relationship to the distance from the village center, but frequently modified by biophysical conditions. Land at the center of the village may be reforested after the village is established as a source of shade as well as fruit and other products. Model variation in land cover change is more sensitive to the spatial reach of village households than their temporal reach, suggesting the important role that technology plays in how villagers travel to their fields (walking versus motorized transit).

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Section: Simulating Effects Of Village Settlementmentioning

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Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand

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“…The MOLAND Model is based on the CA developed by White et al [67]. This technique involves a variety of inputs to determine the state of the land-use in each cell according to a set of transition rules representing the compatibility of land-uses with each other.…”

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Developing and Assessing Alternative Land-Use Scenarios from the MOLAND Model: A Scenario-Based Impact Analysis Approach for the Evaluation of Rapid Rail Provisions and Urban Development in the Greater Dublin Region

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Abstract:In this study, environmental sustainability implications of planned rail infrastructure investments on the urban form and development in the Greater Dublin Region (GDR) have been analysed incorporating the scenario analysis approach. Various scenarios are developed using the MOLAND Model applications including: A baseline scenario incorporating a continuation of the present dispersed pattern of urban development and an alternative scenario with rail-oriented corridor development, under varying conditions of economic growth. An alternative scenario was also developed for the recessionary development case considering the prolonged recession in the GDR. Further explorations incorporating a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) approach are developed to evaluate the sustainability implications of different land development scenarios in the Dublin Region. This is assisted by focussing on the impacts of rail investments on urban form and development as raised in the international comparative literature. The findings from the CBA assessment positively indicate that containment policies-as represented by the public transport oriented development indicate benefits over the dispersed development case by reducing the negative consequences of sprawl type of developments. In contrast, dispersed development in the baseline scenario indicates costs of continuation of such development patterns exceed the benefits in the long term. This study will contribute to policy support evaluation measures relating to the integration of scenario analysis tool with the CBA approach in assisting the evaluation of new transport infrastructure proposals.

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“…In a particular way, the cellular automata (CA) are used in almost all land use change models for urban environments (Torrens and O'Sullivan 2001;Ward et al 2000;White et al 1997;Wu 1998). Besides urbanization, CA-based models now also simulate other processes of land use change; for example, Messina and Walsh (2001) studied land use and land cover dynamics in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an area where tropical forest is converted into agricultural land.…”

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Use of cellular automata in the study of variables involved in land use changes

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The study of changes in land use has been included lately in territorial processes in order to optimize future management decisions. The different functions that the territory plays (production, aesthetic, and natural functions, etc.) make planning choices more difficult. This work focuses on the selection and combination of a set of indicators to analyze the variables through which the changes occur in the land used in viticulture for wine production. The proposed approach makes use of the Geographic Information System (GIS) in the development of a map of land use scenario. It is applied to a case study through a model involving cellular automata (CA) implemented with maps of suitability for viticulture and Markov chains. The use in this case of the CA is aimed at validating the scenario map in order to deduce the variables and the orientations of the farmers in the field of wine production.

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The use of constrained cellular automata for high-resolution modelling of urban land-use dynamics

Cited by 493 publications

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Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand

Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand

Developing and Assessing Alternative Land-Use Scenarios from the MOLAND Model: A Scenario-Based Impact Analysis Approach for the Evaluation of Rapid Rail Provisions and Urban Development in the Greater Dublin Region

Use of cellular automata in the study of variables involved in land use changes

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