PESERA-DESMICE: Land management evaluation model

Table of Contents

1. Authors
2. Summary
3. Acronyms
4. Introduction
5. Coarse-scale model description
   1. The PESERA model: summary
   2. Alternative approaches to assessing soil erosion
   3. Process representation in PESERA
   4. Extensions of PESERA
   5. Adapting PESERA
   6. Assessment at catchment scales
6. Cost-effectiveness modelling
   1. Step 1
   2. Step 2
   3. Step 3
   4. Step 4
   5. Step 5
   6. Step 6
   7. Step 7
   8. Step 8
   9. Step 9
   10. Step 10
   11. Step 11
   12. Step 12
7. Agent-Based modelling in Spain
   1. Phase 1
   2. Phase 2
   3. Phase 3
   4. Phase 4
   5. Phase 5
   6. Phase 6
8. Input-Output modelling in Spain
   1. Model construction
   2. Scenario analyses
9. References

Phase 6

Phase 6: Evaluating the regional soil erosion impacts of agents' agro-ecosystem management decision making

In this phase, the consequences of agro-ecosystem management decisions on soil erosion are evaluated using PESERA (Kirkby et al., 2008). Records of land use change identified through a set of multi-temporal maps produced in phase 1 are fed into the model to better understand how individual decision making at farm level over time across the landscape would impact the agro-ecosystem at a broader scale. In addition, the incorporation of future scenarios into the modelling in phase 6 is expected to produce a proximate of future land uses within the agro-ecosystem under study. Feeding this as input to the PESERA, future forecasting of soil erosion as a consequence of future land managers/users' responses in relation to the management of their lands will be made.