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The Construction Of Complexity In Design And Public Policy Contexts, Chris Urbina Meierling
The Construction Of Complexity In Design And Public Policy Contexts, Chris Urbina Meierling
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores the nature of complexity and how it is manifest in the practice of design research and public policy given their unique contexts. This comparison is made by examining the tools and approaches that are used in understanding problems and creating outcomes in each field. This paper is based on a recently conducted action research study at a state legislature in the United States and is supported by foundational literature on modern problem theory, decision making, methods, and process in the two fields. Complexity emerges from the many stakeholders that surround and define our issues, the enigmatic nature …
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We report results from roughly 20,000 runs of a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. We explored the effect of increasing government incentive to improve biodiversity, in the context of other influences on land manager decision making: aspirations, input costs, and price variability. The experiments test four kinds of policy varying along two dimensions: activity-versus-outcome-based incentive, and individual-versus-collective incentive. The results reveal critical thresholds in incentive schemes, where a sudden increase in environmental benefit occurs for a small increase in incentive. Further, the context affects the level of incentive at which tipping points occur, and …
Integrating Land Markets, Land Management, And Ecosystem Function In A Model Of Land Change, Derek T. Robinson, Tatiana Filatova, Shipeng Sun, Rick L. Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Dawn C. Parker, Meghan Hutchins, William S. Currie, Joan I. Nassauer
Integrating Land Markets, Land Management, And Ecosystem Function In A Model Of Land Change, Derek T. Robinson, Tatiana Filatova, Shipeng Sun, Rick L. Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Dawn C. Parker, Meghan Hutchins, William S. Currie, Joan I. Nassauer
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We present the conceptual design of a new land-change modelling framework that builds on previous land-change research and models (i.e. ALMA, SOME, DEED). The design integrates agents of land change, land-market mechanisms, land-management behaviour and its ecosystem impacts, and land-policy scenarios into a single framework that can be used to address questions about land-change processes in exurban environments. The framework is implemented in Java, built using the Repast Simphony agent-based libraries within the Eclipse integrated development environment. The framework serves as a platform for integrating human and natural processes, as well as data that include social surveys of residential landscape …
The Northern-Global Climate Change Adaptation Dialogue, J. I. Maclellan
The Northern-Global Climate Change Adaptation Dialogue, J. I. Maclellan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Although climate change adaptation can occur over various political, social, and institutionalscales, the majority of adaptation decisions take place at the local level where an intimate understanding ofthe particularities of local circumstances (i.e. successful responses to past extremes events) exist alongsidea lack of formalised expertise in projecting and analyzing future possibilities. The relationship between theexperts who produce counterfactual knowledge, and the individuals who apply it, is thus central to thechallenge of responding to climate change successfully. I present a deliberately polarized caricature of thisrelationship in an attempt to facilitate knowledge exchange (i.e. to identify barriers to knowledgeexchange). Through bibliometric analysis …
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We report results from roughly 20,000 runs of a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. We explored the effect of increasing government incentive to improve biodiversity, in the context of other influences on land manager decision making: aspirations, input costs, and price variability. The experiments test four kinds of policy varying along two dimensions: activity-versus-outcome-based incentive, and individual-versus-collective incentive. The results reveal critical thresholds in incentive schemes, where a sudden increase in environmental benefit occurs for a small increase in incentive. Further, the context affects the level of incentive at which tipping points occur, and …
Integrating Land Markets, Land Management, And Ecosystem Function In A Model Of Land Change, Derek T. Robinson, Tatiana Filatova, Shipeng Sun, Rick L. Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Dawn C. Parker, Meghan Hutchins, William S. Currie, Joan I. Nassauer
Integrating Land Markets, Land Management, And Ecosystem Function In A Model Of Land Change, Derek T. Robinson, Tatiana Filatova, Shipeng Sun, Rick L. Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Dawn C. Parker, Meghan Hutchins, William S. Currie, Joan I. Nassauer
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We present the conceptual design of a new land-change modelling framework that builds on previous land-change research and models (i.e. ALMA, SOME, DEED). The design integrates agents of land change, land-market mechanisms, land-management behaviour and its ecosystem impacts, and land-policy scenarios into a single framework that can be used to address questions about land-change processes in exurban environments. The framework is implemented in Java, built using the Repast Simphony agent-based libraries within the Eclipse integrated development environment. The framework serves as a platform for integrating human and natural processes, as well as data that include social surveys of residential landscape …
The Northern-Global Climate Change Adaptation Dialogue, J. I. Maclellan
The Northern-Global Climate Change Adaptation Dialogue, J. I. Maclellan
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Although climate change adaptation can occur over various political, social, and institutionalscales, the majority of adaptation decisions take place at the local level where an intimate understanding ofthe particularities of local circumstances (i.e. successful responses to past extremes events) exist alongsidea lack of formalised expertise in projecting and analyzing future possibilities. The relationship between theexperts who produce counterfactual knowledge, and the individuals who apply it, is thus central to thechallenge of responding to climate change successfully. I present a deliberately polarized caricature of thisrelationship in an attempt to facilitate knowledge exchange (i.e. to identify barriers to knowledgeexchange). Through bibliometric analysis …
Complete Streets Policies, Irene Wegner