Kolloquium Geoinformatik Land use and ecosystem services - quantifying trade-offs

Land use decisions have wanted and unwanted consequences with respect to the goods and services produced by land systems. Identifying the trade-offs and synergies that come along with land use decisions is therefore important for informing policy makers. The aim of the talk is to provide an overview about methods to assess the different environmental goods and services produced by land systems and to quantify trade-offs. It will touch upon a series of case studies from regional to global scale that use spatial analysis, remote sensing, simulation models, multi-objective optimization and machine-learning approaches to quantify trade-offs in different land systems.