Visibility of Land-Based Resource Variables

The document provides a step-by-step procedure for activating land-based resource calculations in LEAP, starting with enabling the 'Land-Use Change and Land-Based Resources' option in the Scope & Scale settings. It details the necessity of defining land types and regions, as well as configuring resource properties in the General: Fuels screen. The guide notes that enabling these settings reveals new branches in the main tree for specifying land areas and conversions, and that the available variables under the Resources branch vary depending on whether the user is analyzing wood resources or other renewable energy forms like solar, wind, and biomass.

• To activate land-based resource analysis in LEAP, users must first enable the 'Land-Use Change and Land-Based Resources' option in the Scope & Scale tab of the General: Settings screen; otherwise, all related variables are hidden and excluded from calculations.
• Setting up a land-based resource analysis requires creating a list of land types and, because these analyses typically require geographic disaggregation, the authors recommend using a multi-regional model for sizable energy systems such as countries.
• The software provides different levels of detail based on the resource type: wood resources include complex variables for stocks, growth, and demand/supply interactions, whereas other resources (such as solar, wind, and biomass) only consider annual energy productivity.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). Visibility of Land-Based Resource Variables. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Land-based_Resource_Calculations/Visibility_of_Land-Based_Resource_Variables.htm

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Visibility of Land-Based Resource Variables. n.d. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Land-based_Resource_Calculations/Visibility_of_Land-Based_Resource_Variables.htm.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendvisibility, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Visibility of Land-Based Resource Variables}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Land-based_Resource_Calculations/Visibility_of_Land-Based_Resource_Variables.htm}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }