摘要：Regional land use planning provides opportunities for governments, land users, and stakeholders to considermultiple land and resource interests over large geographic areas and meaningful time periods. The broad and integrative natureof regional planning is therefore well suited to assessing the potential cumulative effects of current and future land use activity.For this reason, cumulative effects assessment models and management concepts are playing an increasingly important role inregional planning. We describe how the ALCES. landscape cumulative effects simulation model was used to explore possibleoutcomes of an oil and gas scenario in the Eagle Plain basin of the North Yukon Planning Region of Yukon Territory, Canada.Scenario modeling was conducted to facilitate informed discussion about key land use issues and practices, potential levels oflandscape change, and possible socioeconomic benefits and environmental impacts. Modeling results supported the sustainabledevelopment and cumulative effects management recommendations of the North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan. Land usescenario modeling, as applied in this project, was found to be an effective approach for establishing sustainable developmentguidelines through a regional planning process
关键词：ALCES.; cumulative effects; Eagle Plain; land use planning; limits of acceptable change; moose; North Yukon;Porcupine caribou herd; scenario modeling; Vuntut Gwitchin; Yukon Government
