Conceptualising the analysis of socio-ecological systems through ecosystem services and agent-based modelling

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

“…Or they can be anthropogenic (Raymond et al, 2013), such as land use, farming practices, and the increasing "artificialization" of soils (for example during the construction of shopping malls or vast areas of parking), in which case they can be schematized by another arrow emanating from the human side of the diagram. As in the case of human influences on what constitutes soil services, this arrow indicates that human societies are deciding what types of pressure they are willing to exert on the soil natural capital, and how they are willing to make it evolve, positively or negatively (Vignola et al, 2010;Murray-Rust et al, 2011;Li et al, 2014).…”

Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change

“…ABMs have been applied to many aspects of land-use modelling and ecosystem management [22][23][24]. The increasing empirical grounding of ABMs [25] supports their use in carrying out detailed modelling around ecosystem service provision and SESs at a landscape scale [26]. The direct correspondence between actors and agents allows for many aspects of human decision-making to be modelled, and for a range of different decision-making strategies to be used [17].…”

Applying Landscape Science to Natural Resource Management

“…Rounsevell et al (2012) argue that new models will be needed that go beyond single sector foci to capture the complexity of human-environmental interactions across different scales (e.g., Gaube et al 2009). However, there are various modeling strategies that can be adapted to meet this challenge, including economic models (e.g., Lee et al 2005), models integrating socio-economic and environmental processes (Leimbach et al 2012), and agentbased modeling for simulating complex decision-making (for example, Murray-Rust et al 2011).…”