The design and implementation of effective environmental policies need to be informed by a
holistic understanding of the system processes (biophysical, social and economic), their …

This paper proposes a review of the development and use of multi-agent simulations (MAS)
for ecosystem management. The use of this methodology and the associated tools …

In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that
sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the …

The proliferation of agent-based models (ABMs) in recent decades has motivated model
practitioners to improve the transparency, replicability, and trust in results derived from …

Stakeholder engagement, collaboration, or participation, shared learning or fact-finding,
have become buzz words and hardly any environmental assessment or modelling effort …

Background Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence.
We present a review of the key findings from eight case studies that we conducted in Europe …

Science faces major challenges in tackling the interlinked problems of poverty and
environmental sustainability. This book investigates these challenges and calls for a …

In the land use and land cover (LULC) literature, narrative scenarios are qualitative
descriptions of plausible futures associated with a combination of socio-economic, policy …

Participatory research relies on stakeholder inputs to obtain its acclaimed benefits of
improved social relevance, validity, and actionability of research outcomes. We focus here …

Facing contemporary environmental crisis implies fostering agroecological innovations that
take into account local ecological regulations and rely on multiple stakeholders' innovation …