Best practices for conceptual modelling in environmental planning and management

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 80, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-121

  Argent, Robert M ^a   Sojda, Richard S ^b   Guipponi, Carlo ^c   McIntosh, Brian ^d   Voinov, Alexey A ^e   Maier, Holger R ^f  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^d International Water Centre   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conceptual modelling; Model formalism; Model representation; Participatory modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOLOGY;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS; MODEL REPRESENTATION; MODELING FORMALISMS; PARTICIPATORY MODELLING; STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION;

INTEGRATION TESTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; MODELING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 84959341722     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.02.023     Document Type: Article

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