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JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 1-2, Pages 146-165Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2018.1496157
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Land use; Ecosystem services; InVEST; CLUMondo; Northern Thailand
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Enhancing ecosystem services is important as it provides foundation for he wellbeing of people. This paper presents the future land use simulation for enhancing ecosystem services using CLUMondo, dynamic spatial model. The land use change was assessed from 1989 to 2013 in Wang Thong watershed of Northern Thailand using GIS and a set of ecosystem services was assessed using the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model. Future land uses until 2030 were projected for three policy scenarios, namely business-as-usual, integrated land use development, and enhancing environmental services with different levels of emphasis on ecosystem services. In business-as-usual scenario, it was observed that ecosystem services will decline by 2030 from the base year of 2013, whereas in integrated land use development scenario, the ecosystem services will increase by 5% compared to base year due to anticipated effective protection of remaining forests in all existing and proposed protected areas of the study area. In enhancing environmental services scenario, the ecosystem services will increase by 15%. Such results can serve as useful information in policy formulation in developing land use options, which help enhance ecosystem services in future.
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