Human-Enviroment Interactions using TerraME

This page describes the course on Human-Enviroment Interactions using TerraME that was given at the Vespucci Summer School 2010

This course discusses the challenges of modelling the interactions between the social and the natural systems. Modelling human-environment interactions involves collecting data, building up a conceptual approach, implementing, calibrating, validating, and repeating one or more steps again. Nature-society models need to combine different methods, including support for both cellular automata and agent-based models. To match these requirements, we useTerraME, an open source software that supports multiparadigm modelling of nature-society interactions. The lectures introduce TerraME, and show how to develop models using the software.

• Lecture: Modelling human-environment interactions
• Simple Fire Spread Model: code + database
• Fire Spread Model: fire spread model + database + paper
• Deforestation: Model Based on Trajectory + Presentation, database, Model Based on Neighborhood/Regression + laboratory

• Lecture: Complex Systems and Emergence
• Hydrological model: code + database
• Game of Life: code + reference
• Schelling's Seggregation Model: code + laboratory

• Lecture: Governing the Commons using Game Theory Basics
• Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: code
• Spatial Games: code