Land-use - BLUES
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| Institution | COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/. |
| Solution concept | General equilibrium (closed economy) |
| Solution method | Optimization |
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Land Use classes A representative set of distinct land use classes were chosen to optimize representation and minimize computational requirements in the MESSAGE framework. The starting point were the CSR-UFMG maps uso_da_terra_2013 representing land use in 2013 as allocated by the land use model OTIMIZAGRO. The map represents the cultivated area of 14 crops, double crop areas, planted forests and pastures, plus the natural remnants of forests and savannas, both inside and outside of protected areas (Soares-Filho et al., 2016). It also shows urban areas and water bodies which were used to create an exclusion mask for agricultural activities. These land use class were aggregated for our purposes according to Table 3.
Aggregated LU class Symbol Original LU classes Cropland cropland Single crop areas with: soy, sugarcane, corn, cotton, rice, wheat, beans, coffee, cassava, oranges, bananas, cocoa and tobacco. Double crop areas dblCrop Double crop areas with: soy/corn, soy/wheat, soy/beans, corn/beans, beans/beans Pastures pasture Pasture inside and outside protected areas Planted Forests pltForest Forests planted for wood, paper or bio-energy Savannas savanna Savannas outside protected areas Savannas in Prot Areas savanna_PA Savannas inside protected areas Forests forest Forest outside protected areas Forests in Prot Areas Forest_PA Forest inside protected areas