WP1: Stakeholder dialogue and innovative governance

WP Leader: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

This work package will generate a high resolution land use management geodatabase to assess impacts of LUM policies on environmental and socio-economic indicators and for the agricultural and forest ex-ante assessment models by:

• Gathering and validating data using remote sensing techniques.
• Developing a harmonised open-access database that contains information on land-use and land management systems from 1990 to 2020.
• Regularly updating the land use management geodatabase to 2026.

WP Leader: Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute

This work package will generate a spatial agriculture and forest policy database to assess the impact of existing policies and project their future impact by:

• Reviewing existing national and subnational funding and payment schemes and modelling needs.
• Compiling agricultural and forestry policy, payments, and non-policy land use management drivers database.

WP Leader: National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE)

This work package will use econometric modelling to deepen the understanding of the impact of agricultural and forestry policies on land use and land-use management.

• Countries and regions to estimate land supply models and dynamic impacts of agricultural and forestry policies.
• Farms to see how farm structure and farm profitability change in response to agricultural policy.
• Local scales to capture the spatial dynamics of land-use and land use management scale.

WP4 Development of ex-post econometric models for assessing land use management drivers

WP Leader: National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) 

This work will quantify how much change in land use management will affect green house gas emissions, biodiversity, and farm profitability, by applying and improving econometric methods.

WP Leader: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

This work package will develop high-resolution spatial land system model, which will be used to address a range of land-use related climate, agricultural and land policy questions, by:

• Developing a flexible approach for coupling large scale economic models with high spatial resolution and behavioural models.
• Configuring behavioural models to provide land use decision making level insights and verification for high-resolution modelling in regional case studies.

WP6 High resolution spatial land system and behavioural models

WP Leader: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

This work package will develop macro-level land use models with better coverage of future LUM policy options, by:

• Implementing new management systems and to facilitate a more detailed modelling of environmental effects such as carbon and biodiversity.
• Integrating behavioural parameters reflecting local land-use conditions.
• Establishing interfaces between these macro-level models and the high-resolution models developed in WP6.

WP Leader: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

This work package will develop sustainable land use management policy pathways across multiple spatial scales and sectors by developing a coherent set of policy scenarios with the LAMASUS Modelling Toolbox incorporating feedback from the stakeholder dialogue.

WP8 Sustainable land use management pathways and policy evaluation

WP Leader: ARTTIC Innovation GmbH

This work package supports the sustainable impact for the LAMASUS results and innovations beyond the project lifetime, by:

• Planning and coordinating all dissemination, communication, and engagement activities among project target groups.
• Facilitating knowledge transfer by organizing two summer schools in 2024 and 2026.
• Developing the LAMASUS Portal, which provides open access to data and policy pathways.

WP leader: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

This work package covers the overall coordination and management of the project. It sets up an effective infrastructure to ensure consortiums contractual duties are carried out in compliance with EU regulations.