Towards a Modelling Process for Simulating Socio-ecosystems with a Focus on Climate Change Adaptation
As the impacts of climate change are expected to be increasingly disruptive, a growing share of the economic literature moved to modelling approaches to address the interconnectedness of social, economic, and environmental issues. Among them, System Dynamics (SD) stands out as a well-established modelling approach to analyse complex social-ecological systems. In order to benefit from such modelling exercises it is necessary to follow a structured process, bearing in mind that models should have as their ultimate ambition that of supporting decision-making processes. Yet, the connection with decision-making is addressed only in the last phases of the modelling process, with emphasis placed only on few particular sectors. Hence, a lack of a general framework that can be used as a reference to address climate change adaptation and which could provide insights to economic valuations to support decision-making processes for a different range of sectors emerges. Consistently, the present study aims to bridge the observed gap by employing a combined SES-DAPSIR framework to build a conceptual modelling process for simulating the behaviour of a generic socio-ecosystem, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation. It also illustrates how the proposed conceptual modelling process is concretely put into practice with an application for a coastal socio-ecosystem. This allows demonstrating how the proposed methodology constitute a potential common starting point for different targeted modelling exercises, resulting particularly useful when moving from analytical modelling to decision support
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2023
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Authors: | Cornacchia, Federico ; Martínez-Hernández, Alberto Gabino ; Bidoia, Marco ; Giupponi, Carlo |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Klimawandel | Climate change | Simulation | Klimapolitik | Climate policy |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (34 p) |
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Series: | FEEM Working Paper ; No. 05 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 09, 2023 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4388040 [DOI] |
Classification: | C63 - Computational Techniques ; Q54 - Climate; Natural Disasters ; Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255408