The energy-land use nexus provides a useful framework for defining policy to minimize points of conflict between energy goals and land conservation.
We are looking for software algorithms or open source software programs developed to optimize the parameters and interrelationships between land use and energy production and consumption, especially in the context of green energy developments. Anyone aware of such developments?
I concur with Nathan that Marxan or a similar program could help with this. I would also add that once the data is prepared and an objective function is defined, one could use optimization in any program (such as R). The key would be to get the spatial information together in the required formats, which is what Marxan and other programs provide assistance with.
This sounds like something conservation plannning software like Marxan, NatureServe Vista, or Zonation could handle. Austin Milt is also working on a similar problem in creating quantitative tools to address the environmental tradeoffs of shale-gas infrastructure.
http://www.uq.edu.au/marxan/
http://www.natureserve.org/conservation-tools/natureserve-vista
http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi/software/zonation/
http://www.austinmilt.com/
My Dear Prinsloo; Following links may be useful in your research. regards
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144164052000336470
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2038756
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