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Long-range planning is an uncertain endeavor. This is especially true for urban regions, small ships in a global urban storm that are too small to influence macro policies and without the land-use ...

Integrated land-use transport models are often accused of being too complex, too coarse or too slow. We tightly couple the microscopic land use model SILO (Simple Integrated Land Use Orchestrator) ...

Taking land-use models out of the lab for a test drive with the people who live the models gives scientists a new way to develop possible future scenarios. James Millington, a former post-doctoral ...

A team led by LMU researchers shows why CO₂ fluxes from land use are so difficult to quantify—and how they can be estimated ...