Complex sentence: Land Change Modeling should also better integrate positive and normative approaches to explanation and prediction based on evidence-based accounts of land systems, and optimization approaches to explore the outcomes that are the most beneficial and the processes that might produce those outcomes.
Split into simpler sentences: Land Change Modeling should also better integrate positive and normative approaches to explanation and prediction based on evidence-based accounts of land systems. It should also integrate optimization approaches to explore the outcomes that are the most beneficial and the processes that might produce those outcomes.