Modeling Global Land‐Use Decision Making Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) Third Young Scholar's Network Workshop; Bristol, United Kingdom, 2–4 June 2007

The need to understand human impacts on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and to design sustainable management policies necessitates integrating land-use decision making into an Earth systems perspective. To address this, the Third AIMES Young Scholar's Network Workshop on Modeling Land-Use Decision Making brought togetheran interdisciplinary group of young researchers from diverse backgrounds, ranging from biophysical to socioeconomic research. Participants came from both developing and developed countries. The workshop sought to (1) improve understanding of land-use decision-making processes and (2) identify knowledge gaps that hamper progress in integrating these processes into Earth system models.