1. ESPA ASSETS PROJECT Land cover change September 2012
by Miro Honzak, Patricia Bejarano

2. Existing historical information about land cover change

3. Types of information

4. Deforestation

5. Deforestation

6. Deforestation

7. WaterWorld/SWAT Model
WaterWorld incorporates detailed global spatial datasets at 1 km2 and 1 hectare resolution, spatial models of biophysical and hydrological processes, and scenarios for climate and land use change. The model, developed for policy analysts and scientists, allows users with little specialized training to assess the consequences of different policy and land use decisions (e.g. those related to land cover change). The effects of these decisions can be traced through the biophysical systems, allowing users to incorporate the results into decision-making processes and potentially avoid unintended impacts on local or downstream hydrological resources from, for example, policies that encourage deforestation, biofuel feedstock production, forest restoration, etc. (

8. Link WaterWorld/SWAT to ARIES

9. The spatial context of ES in ARIES
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Source
Sink
Use
Flow
Critical flow
Unmet demand
Satisfied demand
Inaccessible source
The provisionshed is constituted by all different ecosystem sources where the service is generated. The benefitshed identifies areas where potential recipients or users of benefit are. Precise pathways of flow from their point of origin to beneficiaries are identified. One of the key features of ARIES and what makes it different from other approaches is the flow analysis of ecosystem services. 9