Abstract
© 2019 Elsevier LtdUnderstanding the range of approaches available for assessing the impacts of agricultural changes at landscape scale is important when addressing local to global issues. Using a topic modelling approach, we reviewed the literature on impact modelling of agricultural landscapes. A search in Web of Science using the keywords model, agricultural systems and landscape yielded 1,975 hits, of which 514 papers met our selection criteria. The most salient terms fell within six groups: change, scale, pollution, biodiversity, practices and terms on biophysical/regulatory conditions. We identified four main topics: water quality, water quantity/energy crops, biodiversity and Integrated Assessment. Water management issues were more likely to be covered in North American researches, while issues related to Integrated Assessment were mainly covered in European studies. We found no relationship between topic and model type. We conclude that future integrated studies should consider the diversity of agricultural systems in governance of water and biodiversity issues.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 104513 |
| Journal | Environmental Modelling and Software |
| Volume | 122 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
The second author received funding from SLU's Cropping system Platform . This work was also carried out with the financial support of INRA (France). We would like to thank Mary McAfee for English editing. We thank the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful and valuable comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript.
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| Saint Louis University | |
| Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique |