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Model description paper
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16 Mar 2022
Model description paper |
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GOBLIN version 1.0: a land balance model to identify national agriculture and land use pathways to climate neutrality via backcasting
Bernal Institute, School of Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Remi Prudhomme
CIRAD Département Environnements et sociétés, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Brian Duffy
independent researcher
James Gibbons
School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK
Cathal O'Donoghue
National University of Ireland Galway Policy Lab, University Road, Galway, Ireland
Mary Ryan
Rural Economy & Development Programme, Teagasc, Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland
David Styles
Bernal Institute, School of Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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Short summary
The GOBLIN (General Overview for a Backcasting approach of Livestock INtensification) model is a new high-resolution integrated
bottom-upbiophysical land use model capable of identifying broad pathways towards climate neutrality in the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector. The model is intended to bridge the gap between hindsight representations of national emissions and much larger globally integrated assessment models.
The GOBLIN (General Overview for a Backcasting approach of Livestock INtensification) model is a...
