CONTENTS Dedication v List of figures ix List of tables xiv List of contributors xvii Foreword by John Weyant xix PART I Introduction and motivation 1 1Land use in computable general equilibrium models: an overview 3 THOMAS W. HERTEL, STEVEN ROSE AND RICHARD S.J. TOL PART II Empirical foundations of global land use analyses 31 2Global agricultural land use data for climate change analysis 33 CHAD MONFREDA, NAVIN RAMANKUTTY AND THOMAS W. HERTEL 3Global forestry data for the economic modelling of land use 49 BRENT SOHNOEN. COLLEEN TENNITY, MARC HNYTKA AND KARL MEEUSEN 4An integrated global land use database for CGE analysis of climate policy options 72 HUEY-L1N LEE, THOMAS W. HERTEL, STEVEN ROSE AND MISAK AVETISYAN 5Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions data for climate change economic analysis89 STEVEN ROSE AND HUEY-LIN LEE PART III Modelling global land use for climate change policy analysis 121 6 Modelling land use related greenhouse gas sources and sinks and their mitigation potential 123 THOMAS W. HERTEL, HUEY-LIN LEE, STEVEN ROSE AND BRENT SOHNGEN 7 Modelling the competition for land: methods and application to climate policy 154 RONALD SANDS AND MAN-KEUN KIM 8 Biomass energy and competition for land 182 JOHN REILLY AND SERGEY PALTSEV 9 The impact of environmental and climate constraints on global food supply 206 BAS EICKHOUT, HANS VAN MEIJL, ANDRZEJ TABEAU AND ELKE STEHFEST 10 Land use modelling in a recursively dynamic GTAP framework 235 ALLA GOLUB, THOMAS W. HERTEL AND BRENT SOHNGEN 11 The role of forestry in carbon sequestration in general equilibrium models 279 BRENT SOHNGEN, ALLA GOLUB AND THOMAS W. HERTEL 12 KLUM@GTAP: spatially explicit, biophysical land use in a computable general equilibrium model 304 KERSTIN RONNEBERGER, MARIA BERRITTELLA, FRANCESCO BOSELLO AND RICHARD S.J. TOL Index339