Terkko Navigator / Modelling land-use change : progress and applications

Front Matter; Modelling Land-Use Change; Land-Use Change at Cadastral Parcel Level in Albania; Driving Forces of Landscape Change in The Urbanizing Limmat Valley, Switzerland; Landscape Changes in the Israeli Carmel Area; New Land-Use Development Processes Associated with the Acceleration of Urbanisation in China; Driving Forces of Land-Use Change in a Cultural Landscape of Spain; Empirically Derived Probability Maps to Downscale Aggregated Land-Use Data; A Spatial Interaction Model for Agricultural Uses; Spatial Optimisation in Land-Use Allocation Problems. The use of land changes over time as both natural and man-made environments are influenced by the pressures associated with the processes of development. The demand for land for new residential housing has been a huge challenge for governments striving to protect greenfield sites across Europe in recent years, whilst regeneration has been a common response to the decline of manufacturing in the old industrial heartlands. The variety of forces that drive change in the use of land are extensive and complex, including spatial planning policies designed at local, regional, national and supra-natio.