“…To provide this information, spatial land use allocation approaches are employed to downscale aggregate land demands for large world regions to individual grid cells. Examples of such global scale land use allocation approaches can be found in the Global Forest Model (Rokityanskiy et al, 2007), IMAGE (Bouwman et al, 2006), MagPie (Lotze-Campen et al, 2010), KLUM (Ronneberger et al, 2005(Ronneberger et al, , 2009, MIT-IGSM (Reilly et al, 2012;Wang, 2008), GLOBIO3 (Alkemade et al, 2009), GLOBIOM (Havlik et al, 2011), Nexus land use model (Souty et al, 2012(Souty et al, , 2013, and the Global Land use Model (GLM) (Hurtt et al, 2011).…”