Anticipatory modeling of biocomplexity in the Tisza River Basin: First steps to establish a participatory adaptive framework

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 599-609

  Sendzimir, J ^a   Magnuszewski, P ^a,b   Balogh, P ^c   Vari A ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Village of Nagykörü ^*  (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Conceptual models; Feedback loops; Resilience; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT (AM); ECONOMIC PARADIGMS; FEEDBACK LOOPS; RESILIENCE; SOCIO-CULTURAL DOMAINS;

RIVER BASIN PROJECTS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASIN MANAGEMENT; COMPLEXITY; RIVER BASIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; TISZA BASIN;

EID: 33845704222     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.12.032     Document Type: Article

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