Name
Title | ||
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Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach |
Abstract | ||
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System-of-systems approaches for integrated assessments have become prevalent in recent years. Such approaches integrate a variety of models from different disciplines and modeling paradigms to represent a socio-environmental (or social-ecological) system aiming to holistically inform policy and decision-making processes. Central to the system-of-systems approaches is the representation of systems in a multi-tier framework with nested scales. Current modeling paradigms, however, have disciplinary-specific lineage, leading to inconsistencies in the conceptualization and integration of socio-environmental systems. In this paper, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, from engineering, natural and social sciences, have come together to detail socio-technical practices and challenges that arise in the consideration of scale throughout the socio-environmental modeling process. We identify key paths forward, focused on explicit consideration of scale and uncertainty, strengthening interdisciplinary communication, and improvement of the documentation process. We call for a grand vision (and commensurate funding) for holistic system-of-systems research that engages researchers, stakeholders, and policy makers in a multi-tiered process for the co-creation of knowledge and solutions to major socio-environmental problems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104885 | Environmental Modelling & Software |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Social-ecological modeling,Interdisciplinary modeling,Integrated modeling,Scale issues,System-of-systems approach | Journal | 135 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1364-8152 | 2 | 0.40 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 20 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takuya Iwanaga | 1 | 2 | 0.74 |
| Hsiao-Hsuan Wang | 2 | 2 | 1.07 |
| Serena H. Hamilton | 3 | 346 | 27.38 |
| Volker Grimm | 4 | 58 | 10.12 |
| Tomasz E Koralewski | 5 | 2 | 0.74 |
| Alejandro Salado | 6 | 2 | 0.40 |
| Sondoss El Sawah | 7 | 7 | 3.94 |
| Saman Razavi | 8 | 53 | 4.56 |
| Jing Yang | 9 | 158 | 58.81 |
| Pierre Glynn | 10 | 165 | 8.92 |
| Jennifer Badham | 11 | 15 | 4.89 |
| Alexey Voinov | 12 | 627 | 57.41 |
| Min Chen | 13 | 97 | 23.12 |
| W. E. Grant | 14 | 4 | 1.39 |
| Tarla Rai Peterson | 15 | 2 | 0.40 |
| Karin Frank | 16 | 26 | 11.90 |
| Gary Shenk | 17 | 2 | 0.40 |
| C Michael Barton | 18 | 2 | 0.40 |
| A.J Jakeman | 19 | 411 | 74.20 |
| John C Little | 20 | 2 | 0.40 |