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Environmental Modelling
References
- Modeling the Environment (2nd edition), Andrew Ford. Island Press, 2010.
- Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
- Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, Michael L. Deaton & James J. Winebrake. Springer, 2000.
- Simulation for the Social Scientist, Nigel Gilbert & Klaus Troitzsch, Open University Press, 2005.
- Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, John H. Miller & Scott Page, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Classes
Date | Title | Models | Types | Exercise |
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10/04 | Introduction and Lua for TerraME | Lua scripts | nil, number, boolean, string, table, function | Lua for TerraME: A Short Introduction |
17/04 | Systems Theory | Water in the tub | Cell, Event, Timer, Observer | Exercise 1 |
24/04 | Feedbacks | Feedbacks | ||
01/05 | (Labour day) | |||
08/05 | Epidemics | Epidemics | Exercise 2 | |
15/05 | Cellular Automaton | Game of Life | CellularSpace, Neighborhood, Legend | An implementation of Exercise 1 |
22/05 | (Pentecost Week) | |||
29/05 | Fire in the Forest | Fire in the forest (updated) | An implementation of Exercise 2 | |
05/06 | (Vespucci) | Exercise 3 | ||
12/06 | Runoff | Runoff and Database | ||
19/06 | Deforestation Part 1 | TerraView, Database | ||
26/06 | Deforestation Part 2 |
Suggestions for Final Projects
Books
- A. Ford, Modeling the Environment
- Kaibab Deer Herd
- Tuccanon Salmons Migration
- Monolake
- M. Batty, Cities and Complexity
- D. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
- Renewable and non-renewable resources.
Papers
Some references that could be used to search for ideas (I have not read most of the papers. If the model is too complex for a final project it could be possible to develop a simplified version):
- W. von Bloh. Daisyworld: a tutorial approach to geophysiological modelling http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~bloh/