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Land-cover changes cause a loss of natural vegetation in many parts of the world. In the Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) district (Yunnan (云南) Province), rubber plantations replace tropical rainforests covering already an area of about 10% of the study area (2007). There, land-use allocation is mostly driven by economic considerations. Thus, local planning authorities need decision support for land-use planning issues, which integrate socio-economic and ecological aspects. Within the NabanFrame, an agro-economic, ecological and social model was applied, which, altogether, interacted with a land allocation model via defined interfaces. Effects on the water cycle, ecological conditions as well as socio-economic should be considered by integrating the spatially distributed rainfall-runoff and water balance model AKWA-M® in the model setup.
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This study was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) (No. 0330797A).
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Wahren, A., Berkhoff, K., Münch, A. et al. A setup for a scenario-driven water balance at landscape scale—assessment with AKWA-M®-Embedded in a model framework for land-use planning’s decision support in mountainous southwest China. J. Earth Sci. 21, 974–978 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-010-0151-8
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