https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01704-2
Regular Article
Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change
1 National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), France
2 Netherlands Environmental Agency (PBL) – Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), The Netherlands
3 Center for Policy Modelling, Manchester, UK
4 Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey, UK
5 The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland
6 Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands
7 The Finninsh Environment Institute, SYKE, Finland
8 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
9 University of Edinburgh, Scotland
10 Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Italy
a e-mail: guillaume.deffuant@irstea.fr
Received:
1
August
2012
Revised:
9
October
2012
Published online:
5
December
2012
This position paper proposes a vision for the research activity about sustainability in global environmental change (GEC) taking place in the FuturICT flagship project. This activity will be organised in an “Exploratory”, gathering a core network of European scientists from ICT, social simulation, complex systems, economics, demographics, Earth system science. These research teams will collaborate in building a self-organising network of data sources and models about GEC and in using new facilities fostering stakeholder participation. We develop examples of concrete directions for this research: world wide virtual population with demographic and some economic descriptors, ecosystem services production and distribution, governance systems at various scales.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2012
