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Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach

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 dec...

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Autores principales: Iwanaga, Takuya, Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan, Hamilton, Serena H., Grimm, Volker, Koralewski, Tomasz E., Salado, Alejandro, Elsawah, Sondoss, Razavi, Saman, Yang, Jing, Glynn, Pierre, Badham, Jennifer, Voinov, Alexey, Chen, Min, Grant, William E., Peterson, Tarla Rai, Frank, Karin, Shenk, Gary, Barton, C. Michael, Jakeman, Anthony J., Little, John C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104885
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author Iwanaga, Takuya
Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan
Hamilton, Serena H.
Grimm, Volker
Koralewski, Tomasz E.
Salado, Alejandro
Elsawah, Sondoss
Razavi, Saman
Yang, Jing
Glynn, Pierre
Badham, Jennifer
Voinov, Alexey
Chen, Min
Grant, William E.
Peterson, Tarla Rai
Frank, Karin
Shenk, Gary
Barton, C. Michael
Jakeman, Anthony J.
Little, John C.
author_facet Iwanaga, Takuya
Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan
Hamilton, Serena H.
Grimm, Volker
Koralewski, Tomasz E.
Salado, Alejandro
Elsawah, Sondoss
Razavi, Saman
Yang, Jing
Glynn, Pierre
Badham, Jennifer
Voinov, Alexey
Chen, Min
Grant, William E.
Peterson, Tarla Rai
Frank, Karin
Shenk, Gary
Barton, C. Michael
Jakeman, Anthony J.
Little, John C.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-75376322020-10-07 Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach Iwanaga, Takuya Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan Hamilton, Serena H. Grimm, Volker Koralewski, Tomasz E. Salado, Alejandro Elsawah, Sondoss Razavi, Saman Yang, Jing Glynn, Pierre Badham, Jennifer Voinov, Alexey Chen, Min Grant, William E. Peterson, Tarla Rai Frank, Karin Shenk, Gary Barton, C. Michael Jakeman, Anthony J. Little, John C. Environ Model Softw Article 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. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-01 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7537632/ /pubmed/33041631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104885 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Iwanaga, Takuya
Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan
Hamilton, Serena H.
Grimm, Volker
Koralewski, Tomasz E.
Salado, Alejandro
Elsawah, Sondoss
Razavi, Saman
Yang, Jing
Glynn, Pierre
Badham, Jennifer
Voinov, Alexey
Chen, Min
Grant, William E.
Peterson, Tarla Rai
Frank, Karin
Shenk, Gary
Barton, C. Michael
Jakeman, Anthony J.
Little, John C.
Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
title Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
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title_fullStr Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
title_full_unstemmed Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
title_short Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
title_sort socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: managing a system-of-systems modeling approach
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104885
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