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Structure - Fate - Relationships Of Organic Chemicals, Rainer Brüggemann, Guillermo Restrepo, Kristina Voigt
Structure - Fate - Relationships Of Organic Chemicals, Rainer Brüggemann, Guillermo Restrepo, Kristina Voigt
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The evaluation of the potential risk of chemicals receives again a lot of interest due to the renewed chemicals’ policy in the EU. The model package E4CHEM (Exposure Estimation for Potentially Ecotoxic Environmental Chemicals), already developed 1984-1992, is presented in this paper. This is a model which on the one side needs less information or input parameters as the often applied EUSES (European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances) and on the other side provides modules, like EXWAT (Model for the behaviour of the chemical in rivers)) and DTEST (Automatic Data Estimation), which as such are not contained in …
The Development Of A Farming Systems Model (Apsim) A Disciplined Approach., Dean Holzworth, Holger Meinke, Peter Devoil, Malcolm Wegener, Neil Huth, Graeme Hammer, Mark Howden, Michael Robertson, Peter Carberry, David Freebairn, Chris Murphy
The Development Of A Farming Systems Model (Apsim) A Disciplined Approach., Dean Holzworth, Holger Meinke, Peter Devoil, Malcolm Wegener, Neil Huth, Graeme Hammer, Mark Howden, Michael Robertson, Peter Carberry, David Freebairn, Chris Murphy
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) is a mature and stable modelling framework used widely in Australia in the domain of farming systems research and extension. It is capable of simulating a diverse range of farming systems including broad acre dryland and irrigated cropping, small holder farming, on-farm agroforestry systems including the interaction of trees and crops, and through collaboration with other groups, integrated stock and cropping enterprises. APSIM was developed primarily as a research tool to investigate on-farm management practices, natural resource issues including salinity and solute movement, climate risk studies looking at modifying farm practices and climate change …
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Drawing on the literature of agricultural decision support systems (DSS) and experience in developing tools for policy support and evaluation, this paper argues that while in the main such tools have failed to live up to expectations it may be that the expectations were unrealistic. The design-use gap of DSS for environmental management is partially the inevitable cycle of expectations (unbelief-euphoria-disappointment and maturity or abandonment) experienced by any innovation. The environmental problems facing land managers and society are dauntingly complex. Yet more or better quality information does not inevitably lead to better management. Many of the issues that face land-use …
Integrated Assessments Of Climate Variability And Change For Australian Agriculture – Connecting The Islands Of Knowledge, Holger Meinke, Mark Howden, Rohan Nelson
Integrated Assessments Of Climate Variability And Change For Australian Agriculture – Connecting The Islands Of Knowledge, Holger Meinke, Mark Howden, Rohan Nelson
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Key clients for regional or national assessment capabilities are government and industry policymakers, who must deal with constantly changing policy questions. For instance, adaptation to climate change has relatively recently come onto the policy agenda, as has the interaction between adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation. ’Integrated assessment’ has therefore become a common approach that attempts to demonstrate the policy relevance of science. It is intended to inform policies that ultimately lead to better risk management of agro-ecosystems (amongst other objectives). Increasingly policy stakeholders also demand realistic assessments of uncertainties that are associated with the scenarios underpinning such integrated assessments. This …
Structure - Fate - Relationships Of Organic Chemicals, Rainer Brüggemann, Guillermo Restrepo, Kristina Voigt
Structure - Fate - Relationships Of Organic Chemicals, Rainer Brüggemann, Guillermo Restrepo, Kristina Voigt
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The evaluation of the potential risk of chemicals receives again a lot of interest due to the renewed chemicals’ policy in the EU. The model package E4CHEM (Exposure Estimation for Potentially Ecotoxic Environmental Chemicals), already developed 1984-1992, is presented in this paper. This is a model which on the one side needs less information or input parameters as the often applied EUSES (European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances) and on the other side provides modules, like EXWAT (Model for the behaviour of the chemical in rivers)) and DTEST (Automatic Data Estimation), which as such are not contained in …
The Development Of A Farming Systems Model (Apsim) A Disciplined Approach., Dean Holzworth, Holger Meinke, Peter Devoil, Malcolm Wegener, Neil Huth, Graeme Hammer, Mark Howden, Michael Robertson, Peter Carberry, David Freebairn, Chris Murphy
The Development Of A Farming Systems Model (Apsim) A Disciplined Approach., Dean Holzworth, Holger Meinke, Peter Devoil, Malcolm Wegener, Neil Huth, Graeme Hammer, Mark Howden, Michael Robertson, Peter Carberry, David Freebairn, Chris Murphy
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) is a mature and stable modelling framework used widely in Australia in the domain of farming systems research and extension. It is capable of simulating a diverse range of farming systems including broad acre dryland and irrigated cropping, small holder farming, on-farm agroforestry systems including the interaction of trees and crops, and through collaboration with other groups, integrated stock and cropping enterprises. APSIM was developed primarily as a research tool to investigate on-farm management practices, natural resource issues including salinity and solute movement, climate risk studies looking at modifying farm practices and climate change …
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Drawing on the literature of agricultural decision support systems (DSS) and experience in developing tools for policy support and evaluation, this paper argues that while in the main such tools have failed to live up to expectations it may be that the expectations were unrealistic. The design-use gap of DSS for environmental management is partially the inevitable cycle of expectations (unbelief-euphoria-disappointment and maturity or abandonment) experienced by any innovation. The environmental problems facing land managers and society are dauntingly complex. Yet more or better quality information does not inevitably lead to better management. Many of the issues that face land-use …
Integrated Assessments Of Climate Variability And Change For Australian Agriculture – Connecting The Islands Of Knowledge, Holger Meinke, Mark Howden, Rohan Nelson
Integrated Assessments Of Climate Variability And Change For Australian Agriculture – Connecting The Islands Of Knowledge, Holger Meinke, Mark Howden, Rohan Nelson
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Key clients for regional or national assessment capabilities are government and industry policymakers, who must deal with constantly changing policy questions. For instance, adaptation to climate change has relatively recently come onto the policy agenda, as has the interaction between adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation. ’Integrated assessment’ has therefore become a common approach that attempts to demonstrate the policy relevance of science. It is intended to inform policies that ultimately lead to better risk management of agro-ecosystems (amongst other objectives). Increasingly policy stakeholders also demand realistic assessments of uncertainties that are associated with the scenarios underpinning such integrated assessments. This …