Values in socio-environmental modelling: Persuasion for action or excuse for inaction

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 207-212

  Voinov, Alexey ^a   Seppelt, Ralf ^b   Reis, Stefan ^c   Nabel, Julia E M S ^d,e   Shokravi, Samaneh ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action; Decision support; Participatory modelling; Policy making; Science and policy interface; Social values

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACTION; DECISION SUPPORTS; PARTICIPATORY MODELLING; POLICY INTERFACES; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL VALUES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84891473185     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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