Full Description
Collaborative applications of a variety of modeling methodologies have multiplied in recent decades due to widespread recognition of the power of models to integrate information from multiple sources, test assumptions about policy and management choices, and forecast the future states of complex systems. However, information about these modeling efforts often is segregated by both discipline and modeling approach, preventing modelers from learning from one another. This volume addresses the need for cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological communication about collaborative modeling. To enhance a shared understanding of systems problems, scientists and stakeholders need strategies for integrating information from their respective fields, dealing with issues of scale and focus, and rigorously investigating assumptions. The chapters in this volume first explore modeling methodologies for enhanced collaboration, then offer case studies of collaborative modeling across different complex systems problems. The volume will be useful for experienced and beginning modelers as well as scientists and stakeholders who work with modelers.
Contents
Foreword, by Marjan van den Belt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Methods for Collaborative Modeling
Principles of Participatory Ensemble Modeling to Study Complex Socioecological Systems
Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, Eric Jing Du, Louie Rivers III, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Riva C. H. Denny, Alexa L. Wood, Udita Sanga, Sandy Marquart-Pyatt, Victoria Breeze, Rajiv Paudel, and Laura Schmitt Olabisi
Nova: A Novel Tool for Collaborative Agent-Based and Dynamic Systems Modeling
Nancy Darling, Richard Salter, and Ian Burns
Typologies and Trade-offs in FCM Studies: A Guide to Designing Participatory Research Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Alexander Metzger, Steven Gray, Elpiniki Papageorgiou, and Antonie J. Jetter
Designing and Deploying Collaborative Models for Multifunctional Landscape Design: Geodesign in Practice
Bryan C. Runck, Carissa Schively Slotterback, David Pitt, Len Kne, David Mulla, Nicholas Jordan, Marcus Grubbs, Madeline Goldkamp, Alexander Heid, Peter Wiringa, and Yiqun Xie
Collaborative Modeling Institute: A Conception, Paradigm and Protocol for Transdisciplinary Integrative Team Science
Stuart J. Whipple and Bernard C. Patten
Part 2. Applications in Collaborative Modeling
Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling of Agricultural-Environmental Systems in a Developing Country Context
Robert B. Richardson, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Kurt B. Waldman, Naomi Sakana, and Nathan G. Brugnone
Co-Designing a Role-Playing Game to Characterize and Parametrize an Agent-Based Model on Coexistence of Farming Activities and Wildlife Conservation in the Periphery of the Sikumi Forest, Zimbabwe
Arthur Perrotton, Christophe Le Page, and Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky
Participatory Complex Systems Modeling for Environmental Planning: Opportunities and Barriers to Learning and Policy Innovation
Moira Zellner, Leilah Lyons, Daniel Milz, Joey T. R. Shelley, Charles Hoch, Dean Massey, and Joshua Radinsky
Developing a Collaborative System Dynamics Model of College Drinking Events: Finding a Common Language
John D. Clapp, Kevin M. Passino, Luis Felipe Giraldo, Danielle R. Madden, and Hugo J. Gonzalez Villasanti
Using Systems Thinking to Promote Wellness Program Planning and Implementation in Urban High Schools
David W. Lounsbury, Lynn Fredericks, Camille Jimenez, Sarah N. Martin, Jean Lim, Kelly Nimmer, Moonseong Heo, Ralph Levine, Michelle Bouchard, and Judith Wylie-Rosett
Participatory Modeling with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: Studying Veterans' Perspectives on Access and Participation in Higher Education
Ronda J. Jenson, Alexis N. Petri, Antonie J. Jetter, Arden D. Day, and George S. Gotto
Contributors
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