Abstract
This position paper proposes a vision for the research activity about sustainability in global environmental change (GEC) taking place in the FuturICT flagship project. This activity will be organised in an "Exploratory", gathering a core network of European scientists from ICT, social simulation, complex systems, economics, demographics, Earth system science. These research teams will collaborate in building a self-organising network of data sources and models about GEC and in using new facilities fostering stakeholder participation. We develop examples of concrete directions for this research: world wide virtual population with demographic and some economic descriptors, ecosystem services production and distribution, governance systems at various scales.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 519-545 |
Journal | The European Physical Journal. Special Topics |
Volume | 214 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- intermediate-complexity model
- midlatitude atmospheric jet
- extreme-value statistics
- agent-based models
- land-use
- water management
- decision-making
- food systems
- total-energy
- simulation