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Land-Use Planning For Multiple Environmental Services (Lumens)

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LUMENS:• Was specifically developed to empower multi-stakeholder negotiations for planning sustainable landscapes that can support livelihoods and development while maintaining and restoring environmental services, especially in tropical countries• Is a framework based on user-friendly, parsimonious and publicly available software• Supports inclusive, integrated and informed negotiations about land use• Is a spatially-explicit, semi-agent-based model that accommodates a broad range of scenarios• Require minimal input data, recognizing the scarcity of reliable data in developing countriesTHE

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