@article{iiasa14159,
          volume = {580},
           month = {February},
           title = {Global land-use allocation model linked to an integrated assessment model},
       publisher = {Elsevier},
         journal = {Science of the Total Environment},
             doi = {doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.025},
           pages = {787--796},
            year = {2017},
        keywords = {Land-use change; Spatial allocation; Integrated assessment},
             url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14159/},
            issn = {1879-1026},
        abstract = {We developed a global land-use allocation model that can be linked to integrated assessment models (IAMs) with a coarser spatial resolution. Using the model, we performed a downscaling of the IAMs' regional aggregated land-use projections to obtain a spatial land-use distribution, which could subsequently be used by Earth system models for global environmental assessments of ecosystem services, food security, and climate policies. Here we describe the land-use allocation model, discuss the verification of the downscaling technique, and explain the influences of the downscaling on estimates of land-use carbon emissions. A comparison of the emissions estimated with and without downscaling suggested that the land-use downscaling would help capture the spatial distribution of carbon stock density and regional heterogeneity of carbon emissions caused by cropland and pasture land expansion.},
          author = {Hasegawa, T. and Fujimori, S. and Ito, A. and Takahashi, K. and Masui, T.}
}