Land-Change Science Seminar

Speakers: Eric Lambin, Peter Deadman, Raymond Cabrera, and Christophe Le Page
Title: Land-Change Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Category: Seminar

Speaker #1: Professor Eric Lambin of the University of Louvain and Stanford University discusses the mechanisms through which economic globalization increasingly drives land use change and uses case studies to illustrate the conditions under which local land use policies are effective in reducing conversion of natural ecosystems.

Land-Change Science Seminar- Eric Lambin from Waterloo Institute for Complexit on Vimeo.

Speakers #2 and #3: Raymond Cabrera and Peter Deadman explore the current challenges facing computational research in land use science, with a focus on agent-based models of land-use change in the Amazon rainforest.

Land-Change Science Seminar- Raymond Cabrera from Waterloo Institute for Complexit on Vimeo.

Land-Change Science Seminar- Peter Deadman from Waterloo Institute for Complexit on Vimeo.

Speaker #4:Christophe Le Page of the Centre for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development discusses his research on the conception and implementation of a companion modeling (ComMod) process that was used to mediate land use conflicts in Nan provide, Thailand. This process was successful in reconciling conflicts between stakeholder groups and facilitated the joint adoption of a common action plan relying on an experiment to assess the management of Brachiariaruziziensis pastures under highland environmental conditions.

Land-Change Science Seminar- Christophe Le Page from Waterloo Institute for Complexit on Vimeo.