Modelling Nature-based Solutions
Integrating Computational and Participatory Scenario Modelling for Environmental Management and Planning
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- Editor: Neil Sang, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Date Published: April 2020
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- isbn: 9781108428934
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are essential to ensure a sustainable society and healthy ecosystem over the coming decades. However, the systems to be managed are both broad and complex, requiring an integrated understanding of both bio-physical systems, such as soils and water, and economic and social systems, such as urban development and human behaviour. This edited book joins these domains of knowledge together from an applied perspective and considers how computer science can help. It takes a strategic look at the benefits and barriers to using modelling within environmental management and planning practice. It delves further by providing an in-depth comparative review of a wide range of models from a variety of scientific disciplines of interest with examples of their use for NBS. As such, this illustrated guide is designed to help students, researchers and practitioners navigate the huge range of modelling options available and develop the common understanding to work inter-disciplinarily.
Read more- Multiple case studies from around the world, and an overview of a range of ecosystem services, enables readers to see the potential of nature-based solutions
- A review of models from an applied perspective provides a focus on the model's relevance to applied contexts, such as availability of data and skills, rather than just the model's capabilities
- A wider perspective on the role of modelling within environmental management and planning helps readers to consider key benefits of models, barriers to their use, what needs to change systemically to encourage their use, and when simpler models can suffice
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108428934
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.78kg
- contains: 47 b/w illus. 24 colour illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction Neil Sang
1. Landscape modelling and stakeholder engagement: participatory approaches and landscape visualisation David Miller, Åsa Ode Sang, Iain Brown, Jose Munoz-Rojas, Chen Wang and Gillian Donaldson-Selby
2. Agent-based models of coupled social and natural systems Jiaqi Ge and Gary Polhill
3. Modelling nature-based solutions from soil ecosystem services Matthew Aitkenhead
4. Modelling water resources for nature-based solutions Sarah Dunn
5. Models at the service of marine nature-based solutions Ioanna Akoumianaki and Arthur Capet
6. Coastal and freshwater flood models: a review in the context of NBS Neil Sang
7. Nature-based solutions to urban microclimate regulation Johanna Deak Sjöman and Erik Johansson
8. Data mining, machine learning and spatial data infrastructures for scenario modelling Neil Sang and Matthew Aitkenhead
9. Can geodesign be used to facilitate boundary management for planning and implementation of nature-based solutions? Sarah Gottwald, Ron Janssen and Christopher Raymond
10. Integrating models into practice-recommendations Neil Sang, Ionna Akoumianaki, Matthew Aitkenhead, David Miller and Åsa Ode-Sang
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