The LUCIS model requires that three stakeholder groups, one to represent each of the three land-use types, serve as advocates for their respective category. Each group rates all lands in a defined study area for their relative suitability to support their land-use category they represent. The three results are compared to identify areas of potential conflict. This is accomplished through five steps:

       1. Goals and objectives

          Define goals and objectives that become the criteria for determining suitability

       2. Data inventory

          Inventory data resources potentially relevant to each goal and objective

       3. Suitability

          Analyze data to determine relative suitability for each goal

       4. Preference

          Combine the relative suitabilities of each goal to determine preference for the three major land-use categories

       5. Conflict

          Compare the three land-use preference to determine likely areas of future land-use conflict