4th IGBP Congress May 5-9 2008,
Cape Town, South Africa
'Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth System'
Session A2: Modelling in coupled human-environmental systems: integrative models for land change science and
market based instruments for integrated modelling.
- Linking farming communities to larger scale global changes: climate change and commercial agribusiness
in the arid Sandveld, western South Africa. Presenter: Emma Archer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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- From factors to processes: modelling change in coupled human-environmental land use systems.
Presenter: Richard Aspinall, Macaulay Institute, UK. For presentation please see
here
- Combining agent-based and stock/flow modelling approaches in a participative analysis of the integrated
land system in Reichraming, Austria. Presenter: Helmut Haberl, Klagenfurt University, Austria.
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- Data and model integration in land dynamics. Presenter: Tom Veldkamp, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
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- Land-cover/land-use change and consistency between integrated assessment and Earth system models.
Presenter: Kathy Hibbard, AIMES, Colorado, USA. More information soon
- Modelling ecosystem change and service provision under a changing climate: a case study from the Eastern
Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Presenter: Rob Marchant, University of York, UK. For presentation please see
here
- Sustainable Land Architecture: the Concept and Challenge. Presenter: Billie L. Turner II, Clark University, USA.
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- Linear and non-linear effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services: a challenge for human-environmental systems.
Presenter: Sandra Díaz, IMBIV-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. For presentation please see
here
- The Science-Policy interface: the challenge of necessary but sufficient complexity.
Presenter: Mark Stafford Smith, CSIRO, Australia. For presentation please see
here
- Uncovering general characteristics of land-change expected with globalization: methodological and conceptual challenges.
Presenter: Anette Reenberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. For presentation please see
here
- Vulnerability ‘science’ and GEC: voyeur, validation and value?. Presenter: Coleen Vogel,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. For presentation please see
here
- Biofuels in Brazil: impacts on Land Change. Presenter: Carlos A. Nobre, National Institute for Space
Research (INPE),Brazil. For presentation please see
here
- Biofuels: ecological and land use issues related to opportunities and constraints to future development.
Presenter: Dennis Ojima, USA. For presentation please see
here
- Global HANPP and ecosystem services: possible research directions. Presenter: Helmut Haberl,
Klagenfurt University, Austria. For presentation please see
here
- Global human appropriation of net primary production in the year 2000: pattern and magnitude.
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- A comprehensive global 5min resolution land-use dataset for the year 2000 consistent with national census data.
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- Linking agent-based models with stock-flow models: simulating interrelations between social-economic
processes, land use and ecological substance flows.
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- The design of integrative models of social and environmental systems in land change science.
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