scholarly journals MEDEAS: a new modeling framework integrating global biophysical and socioeconomic constraints

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 986-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iñigo Capellán-Pérez ◽  
Ignacio de Blas ◽  
Jaime Nieto ◽  
Carlos de Castro ◽  
Luis Javier Miguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Integrated Assessment Modeling ◽  
Energy Transitions

Description of the open-source MEDEAS integrated assessment modeling framework, which focuses on the biophysical and economic dimensions, restrictions and interactions arising during energy transitions.

The SYPR Integrative Assessment Model: Complexity in Development

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Manson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Integrated Assessment Modeling ◽  
Global Environmental

Be it global environmental change or environment and development, landuse and land-cover change is central to the dynamics and consequences in question in the southern Yucatán peninsular region. Designing policies to address these impacts is hampered by the difficulty of projecting land use and land cover, not only because the dynamics are complex but also because consequences are strongly place-based. This chapter describes an integrated assessment modeling framework that builds on the research detailed in earlier chapters in order to project land-use and land-cover change in a geographically explicit way. Integrated assessment is a term that describes holistic treatments of complex problems to assess both science and policy endeavors in global environmental change (Rotmans and Dowlatabadi 1998). The most common form of integrated assessment is computer modeling that combines socioeconomic and biogeophysical factors to predict global climate. Advanced in part by the successes of these global-scale models, integrated assessment has expanded to structure knowledge and set research priorities for a large range of coupled human–environment problems. Increasing recognition is given to the need for integrated assessment models to address regionalscale problems that are masked by global-scale assessments (Walker 1994). Such models must address two issues to project successfully land-use and land-cover change at the regional scale. First, change occurs incrementally in spatially distinct patterns that have different implications for global change (Lambin 1994). Second, a model must account for the complexity of, and relationships among, socio-economic and environmental factors (B. L. Turner et al. 1995). The SYPR integrated assessment model, therefore, has a fine temporal and spatial grain and it places land-use and landcover change at the intersection of land-manager decision-making, the environment, and socio-economic institutions. What follows is a description of an ongoing integrated assessment modeling endeavor of the SYPR project (henceforth, SYPR IA model). The depth and breadth of the SYPR project poses a challenge to the integrated assessment modeling effort since some unifying framework must reconcile a broad array of issues, theories, and data. The global change research community offers a general conception of how environmental change results from infrastructure development, population pressure, market opportunities, resource institutions, and environmental or resource policies (Stern, Young, and Drukman 1992).

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