Welcome
I
Am Lucia. Suffer me to take this man,
Who slumbers. Easier so his way shall speed.
— Dante, Divine Comedy
About LUCIA
The Land Use Change Impact Assessment tool is a dynamic and spatially explicit landscape-scale model developed in Hohenheim.
LUCIA aims at assessing impacts of land use change on soil productivity and fertility, biomass production, watershed functions and environmental services in small mountainous catchments. Emphasis is on matter flows in the landscape that connect upland and lowland areas.
From its original development for water, soil and nutrient flows in small uplands watersheds in Southeast Asia, LUCIA has moved towards African savannahs, where model scenarios emphasize intercropping and crop-livestock interactions.