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How Many Cats (Or “Cat-Equivalents”) Does It Take To Cause An Extinction? And How Simple Can You Make A Model Before It Becomes Useless?, Kate O'Brien, Michaela Plein, Matthew Holden, Nigel Bean, Christopher Baker, Eve Mcdonald-Madden
How Many Cats (Or “Cat-Equivalents”) Does It Take To Cause An Extinction? And How Simple Can You Make A Model Before It Becomes Useless?, Kate O'Brien, Michaela Plein, Matthew Holden, Nigel Bean, Christopher Baker, Eve Mcdonald-Madden
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Managers make decisions on how to protect and restore environmental systems, along with associated ecosystem services. Ideally, these decisions are made with the support of predictive models, built on a sound understanding of how the system works, validated with data and accompanied by credible estimates of uncertainty. However, in many cases data are scarce or non-existent, understanding of key processes is limited, and disturbances such as land-use change or invasive species may be fundamentally altering the way the system functions. If there are insufficient data available for meaningful parameterization or validation, and no prospect of more data becoming available, how …
Stochastic Modeling Of Urban Resilience, Elisabeth Krueger, P. Suresh C. Rao, Christopher Klinkhamer
Stochastic Modeling Of Urban Resilience, Elisabeth Krueger, P. Suresh C. Rao, Christopher Klinkhamer
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
The dynamics of critical urban infrastructure services is the outcome of the capacity of the infrastructure system to deliver natural resources, as managed by utilities and other management entities. This includes the supply of citizens with food, energy and water as built and managed by multiple, interdependent, critical infrastructure systems (physical infrastructure), and operated by socio- economic institutions. Urban institutions use financial and political capitals to build robust infrastructure, and maintain it to provide reliable and cost-effective critical services. Urban households cope with regular variations in supply of critical services, and adapt to overcoming “surprise” service deficits resulting from shocks. …