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4th Vespucci Specialist Meeting

Florence (Firenze), Italy, 12 to 13 June 2010:

"Interfacing social and environmental modeling"

held at Villa La Pietra, a magnificent set of villas owned by New York University.

 

 

Participants:

Mike Batty, Daniel Brown, Gilberto Camara, Cristina Capineri, Max Craglia, Stewart Fotheringham, Mike Goodchild, Michael Gould, Werner Kuhn, Carlo Lavalle, David Mark, Michael Obersteiner, Edzer Pebesma, Frank Raes, Andrea Saltelli, Tom Veldkamp

Each participant addressed in the light of his experience, the following points:

  1. key issues that need addressing in interfacing environmental and social models
  2. short term activities to overcome perceived barriers
  3. longer term research needs Initial set of issues to be considered, include:
  • Differences in geographical and temporal scales in the models
  • Differences in approaches (global to local for many environmental models, local to global for social ones)
  • Differences in base assumptions and scenarios
  • Different types of models (e.g. physical circulation models, econometric models, agent based, etc. time-oriented, space-oriented, or integrated spatio-temporal)
  • Different data requirements and barriers to access and use
  • Differences in disciplinary languages and assumptions (ontologies, semantics, etc.)
  • Differences in spatio-temporal interactions, feedback loops, footprints, etc.

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