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This paper offers techniques of validation that land-use and -cover change (LUCC) modelers should find useful because the methods give information that is useful to improve LUCC models and to set the agenda for future LUCC research. Specifically, the validation technique: (a) budgets sources of agreement and disagreement between the prediction map and the reference map, (b) compares the predictive...